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This man decided that the perfect location for one of his inventions was on a tiny island in the Florida Keys, though building it required disarming nearby nuclear silos in Cuba. This inventor designed a tank that could disguise itself as a tree, as well as a tank that shoots bouncing beams of light, respectively called the mirage tank and prism tank. From a base in San Francisco, this inventor developed time travel technology to avert the Psychic Dominator Disaster. This man also time traveled to 1924 and erased (*) Adolf Hitler from the timeline by shaking hands with him. A mass teleportation device invented by this man helped end World War III by enabling a surprise invasion of Moscow, and is called the Chronosphere. For 10 points, name this German scientist critical to Allied success against the Soviet Union. ■END■

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