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Neer then introduces the scientists who invented the weapon, including the distinguished professor of organic chemistry, Louis Fieser, who tested a 70lb napalm bomb on Harvard's University's soccer field in 1940 and became an early recruit in the National Defense Research Committee, which linked the academy to the military and industry. Toward the end of the Second World War, napalm was used both in flamethrowers and arial bombs, achieving its greatest "success" in the incineration of major Japanese cities in the spring of 1945. A professor of medicine wandering through the ruins of Tokyo found there "was no one to rescue. If you touched one of the roasted bodies the flesh would crumble in your hand. Humanity was reduced to its chemical properties." Updraughts from the fires "brought with them a sickening odor", an American pilot remembered, "an odor that I will never be able to get completely out of my nostrils - the smell of roasting human flesh. I later learned that some pilots and crewman gagged and vomited in reaction to the stench, and a few had passed out."
In post-1945 wars of decolonization and counter-insurgency napalm again proved its efficacy. In Korea, the US dropped twice as much napalm as it had on Japan: 32,357 tons. But the apogee of its use and the beginning of a remarkable struggle against it occurred during the Vietnam War. Between 1963 and 1973, 388,000 tons of napalm were dropped on Indochina. Press reports of its impact were accompanied by praise for its excellence as a weapon and the insistence that it was only ever used on "clearly identified military targets" - although of course accidents happen. Unconvinced, in 1695 an anti-war group in California began a campaign against local manufacturer. Increasingly --Karl Helicher, Library Journal, 15th March 2013
In best books of 2013 feature --Joanna Bourke, Times Higher Education, 19/12/2013
Napalm is a revelation. In a story that takes us from Harvard Stadium to Vietnam, Robert M. Neer retells the past 70 years of American history through a single extraordinary and terrible invention. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the American way of war and its humanitarian dilemmas. --John Fabian Witt, Author of Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History
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