If I could - but I can't - all the posts in this blog would be condensed into an exciting, propulsive page turner.
However there is an exception : the wartime saga of dying Dr Martin Henry Dawson.
Dawson's ultimately successful effort to hold off his own body and his own government just long enough to convince the Allies to reverse their war aims and to mass produce natural penicillin for all in a war world in need reads like improbable fiction but is all one hundred percent true.
I will gradually provide links, here, to a couple of dozen colourfully illustrated PDFs (consolidations of earlier blog posts) that will detail chronologically the exciting history of Dawson's other Manhattan Project ....
Why My Urgency ?
- Michael Marshall
- Nova Scotia
- Histories of WWII all start with the presumption that it was a war raged between humans and human ideologies, with Nature’s climate and geography as side issues easily surmounted.My blog, on the contrary will only accept that it was conflict between humans and their ideology that STARTED the war but that it was the barriers thrown up by Mother Nature (geography & climate) that turned it into a war that lasted between 6 to 15 years and expanded to thoroughly involve all the world’s oceans and continents. High Modernity may have started the war convinced that Nature had been conquered and was about to be soon replaced by human Synthetic Autarky and that only human Tiger tanks and human Typhoon planes were to be feared. But by the end, more and more people had lost their naive faith in Scientism and were beginning to accept that humanity was thoroughly entangled with both the Nature of plants, animals & microbes as well as the Nature of so called “lesser” humanity. By 1965, the world was definitely entering the Age of Entanglement. Billions still believed - at least in part -with the promises of High Modernity but intellectually & emotionally, it was no longer dominant...
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