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Nerd alert: Your comment about "reputation management" was perplexing because I thought Nobel's contributions to war being outweighed by posthumous contributions to peace was the origin story of them existing in the first place, so it sent me down a light internet research rabbit hole. haha No one knows for sure, but the story goes that that was sort of the whole point, actually. It's interesting, if unverified, that realizing his legacy was "the weapons-and-war guy" was the original motivation for creating the prizes upon his death or at least for including peace? We'll never know for sure, but it makes a good redemption story haha https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Nobel

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Yes, that's the famous (and only maybe true) tale. This was just an extreme version of that rep management. An actual anti-arms group.

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Thanks for that Atlantic article!

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