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Exploring Unintended Consequences of Innovation: The Story of Alfred Nobel and Dynamite

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Exploring the story of Alfred Nobel and how his invention of dynamite, intended to promote peace, was manipulated by political radicals and anarchists for terrorist attacks, leading to significant historical repercussions in early 1900s New York City.

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