Nail Polish Removal and Paint Thinner Were Essential to the Creation of Israel
The story of how one chemical helped to bring a people out of 2000 years of exile.
Imagine, for a second, that you’re David Lloyd George and it’s the summer of 1915. Britain has fully engaged the Germans in Western Europe… but things are going incredibly badly.
A single failed attack against the Germans resulted in the deaths of 11,000 British soldiers in just one day. The country was now in uproar after it was revealed by The Times that this was because Britain didn’t have the necessary artillery shells needed to break the German lines.
It was a military and political failure and, as people tend to do when faced with a catastrophic mistake, everyone was pointing fingers at everyone else. This was the beginning of what would go down in history as the Shell Crisis of 1915.
It’s at this time that your good friend Winston Churchill, now First Lord of the Admiralty, tells you about a professor at the University of Manchester he’d heard about. He’s some Jew from Russia or something who supposedly has a new way of…
