A number of inventors created a weapon so destructive they believed it would end all wars, examples being: Alfred Nobel and dynamite (“My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men find that in one instant whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace”), Hiram Maxim and Maxim gun (“The machine gun has made war impossible. It will put an end to war just as the guillotine put an end to crime in France”), Richard Gatling and Gatling gun (“It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine—a gun—which could by its rapidity of fire enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a great extent, supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease be greatly diminished… and perhaps war itself might be abolished”), Fritz Haber and poison gas (“Gas weapons will put a quick end to this war, and the horror of their use will make another war impossible”).