The use of napalm
Napalm has been one of the most controversial and destructive war weapons that has been used in modern times, with little international political restriction, although the use of napalm is morally wrong in many people 's minds. The use of this weapon dates back to World War ll, with its development in a highly classified lab at Harvard University. Napalm saw its first widespread use in the burning of Japanese cities during the end of the war in the Pacific. This chemical was rather a multifunctional weapon, with it being able to be dropped from air, or used on the ground by tanks and flamethrower troops.
Napalm is basically a flammable liquid that is most often restricted to warfare use. It is a mixture of a chemical gelling agent and a petroleum based fuel. Napalm was first an incendiary device used to burn down building, later it was primarily used as an anti-personnel weapon, as it sticks to skin and causes severe burns when on …show more content…
Day after day hundreds of pictures and videos clips would be reported in the daily press. One of the most memorable pictures being of the “Napalm Girl”, this was a photo of a girl running down a road with a group of young girls after a South Vietnamese attack on her village. The girl was running down the street naked while napalm was burning her body. The more the media emphasized on the pain caused by napalm, the more it helped to strengthen anti war movement. In October 1966, the first demonstration against the use of napalm was conducted at the Berkeley campus of the University of California and Wayne State University in Michigan. In the following year, hundreds of protests continued in larger scale. The Dow Chemical Company who manufactured napalm for the U.S. government from 1965 to 1969 and its products were boycotted all over the country. Dow recruiters also faced a storm of protests by college students, who called them as “baby
Napalm has been one of the most controversial and destructive war weapons that has been used in modern times, with little international political restriction, although the use of napalm is morally wrong in many people 's minds. The use of this weapon dates back to World War ll, with its development in a highly classified lab at Harvard University. Napalm saw its first widespread use in the burning of Japanese cities during the end of the war in the Pacific. This chemical was rather a multifunctional weapon, with it being able to be dropped from air, or used on the ground by tanks and flamethrower troops.
Napalm is basically a flammable liquid that is most often restricted to warfare use. It is a mixture of a chemical gelling agent and a petroleum based fuel. Napalm was first an incendiary device used to burn down building, later it was primarily used as an anti-personnel weapon, as it sticks to skin and causes severe burns when on …show more content…
Day after day hundreds of pictures and videos clips would be reported in the daily press. One of the most memorable pictures being of the “Napalm Girl”, this was a photo of a girl running down a road with a group of young girls after a South Vietnamese attack on her village. The girl was running down the street naked while napalm was burning her body. The more the media emphasized on the pain caused by napalm, the more it helped to strengthen anti war movement. In October 1966, the first demonstration against the use of napalm was conducted at the Berkeley campus of the University of California and Wayne State University in Michigan. In the following year, hundreds of protests continued in larger scale. The Dow Chemical Company who manufactured napalm for the U.S. government from 1965 to 1969 and its products were boycotted all over the country. Dow recruiters also faced a storm of protests by college students, who called them as “baby