Did anything else happen between 1939 and 1945 besides WWII?
Was there ever a possibility that the world could have gotten along more or less in peace, muddling through, between 1939 and 1945?
Is there a possibility of an alternative history for 1939-1945?
I think that Martin Henry Dawson's tiny natural
penicillin project(1939-1945) ,offered one such alternative.
An alternative approach for the civilized portion of Humankind to take to Nature and other weaker/poorer/darker Human Beings than the hostile approach they did take.
So then 1939-1945 offers the possibility of two intertwining, parallel, stories - the big (unsustainably evil) one that the Modern World did take and the alternative small (sustainably decent) path that Dawson's team chose to trod.
'Begin by Comparing and Contrasting' , says every teacher - and it seems a good approach to take here as well ....
On Oct 16th 1940, Gotham's concrete jungle rescued the NATURAL penicillin stone its (British) builders had rejected and gave the world's first antibiotic shot. Alexander Fleming's ARTIFICIAL penicillin (ironically from leafy green Oxford !) won a Nobel but failed morally and technically. Instead Manhattan Natural radiated hope to a world tired, huddled and wretched. On its 75th, let's remind terrorist Ramzi Yousef about a Manhattan project that saved far more lives than the A-Bomb ever killed.
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