They believed that they could banish the scourge of war, or at least restrain its excesses, if they could only invent the ultimate weapon, the instrument so horrible that no one would dare use it. But countless inventors and innovators, from Alfred Nobel to Robert Boyle, thought of weapons positively.
Its foundational figure in Western civilization is the Greek Hephaestus (whose counterpart was the Roman “Vulcan”), the only god to have been lame and misshapen. Hyde roaming the back alleys of civilization for opportunities to work his worst on society. Military technology often seems to be the dark side of innovation, the Mr.
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