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Napalm - An American Biography (Paperback)
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Napalm - An American Biography (Paperback)
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Napalm, incendiary gel that sticks to skin and burns to the bone,
came into the world on Valentine's Day 1942 at a secret Harvard war
research laboratory. On March 9, 1945, it created an inferno that
killed over 87,500 people in Tokyo-more than died in the atomic
explosions at Hiroshima or Nagasaki. It went on to incinerate
sixty-four of Japan's largest cities. The Bomb got the press, but
napalm did the work. After World War II, the incendiary held the
line against communism in Greece and Korea-Napalm Day led the 1950
counter-attack from Inchon-and fought elsewhere under many flags.
Americans generally applauded, until the Vietnam War. Today, napalm
lives on as a pariah: a symbol of American cruelty and the
misguided use of power, according to anti-war protesters in the
1960s and popular culture from Apocalypse Now to the punk band
Napalm Death and British street artist Banksy. Its use by Serbia in
1994 and by the United States in Iraq in 2003 drew condemnation.
United Nations delegates judged deployment against concentrations
of civilians a war crime in 1980. After thirty-one years, America
joined the global consensus, in 2011. Robert Neer has written the
first history of napalm, from its inaugural test on the Harvard
College soccer field, to a Marine Corps plan to attack Japan with
millions of bats armed with tiny napalm time bombs, to the
reflections of Phan Thi Kim Phuc, a girl who knew firsthand about
its power and its morality.
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