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N a p a l m a n a mer ic a n biogr a ph y robert m. neer Napalm N a p a l m A N A M E R I C A N B I O G R A P H Y Robert M. Neer The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts • London, En gland 2013 Copyright © 2013 by Robert M. Neer All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Neer, Robert M., 1964– Napalm : an American biography / Robert M. Neer. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978- 0- 674- 07301- 2 (alk. paper) 1. Napalm— History. 2. Incendiary weapons— History. 3. Incendiary bombs— Design and construction— History. 4. United States— Armed Forces— Weapons systems— History. I. Title. UG447.65.N44 2013 355.8'245—dc23 2012034926 For my father, a healer Contents Prologue: Trang Bang Village, South Vietnam, June 8, 1972 1 HERO 1. Harvard’s Genius 7 2. Anonymous Research No. 4 29 3. American Kamikazes: Suicide Bomber Bats 45 4. We’ll Fight Mercilessly 52 5. The American Century 75 SOLDIER 6. Freedom’s Furnace 91 7. Vietnam Syndrome 109 8. Seeing Is Believing 126 9. Indicted 134 (cid:2) viii Contents PARIAH 10. Baby Burners 151 11. Trial of Fire 165 12. The Third Protocol 174 13. Judgment Day 193 14. The Weapon That Dare Not Speak Its Name 208 Epilogue: The Whole World Is Watching 223 Notes 231 Ac know ledg ments 301 Index 305 Napalm

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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 Nagas

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N a p a l m a n a mer ic a n biogr a ph y robert m. neer Napalm N a p a l m A N A M E R I C A N B I O G R A P H Y Robert M. Neer The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts • London, En gland 2013 Copyright © 2013 by Robert M. Neer All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Neer, Robert M., 1964– Napalm : an American biography / Robert M. Neer. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978- 0- 674- 07301- 2 (alk. paper) 1. Napalm— History. 2. Incendiary weapons— History. 3. Incendiary bombs— Design and construction— History. 4. United States— Armed Forces— Weapons systems— History. I. Title. UG447.65.N44 2013 355.8'245—dc23 2012034926 For my father, a healer Contents Prologue: Trang Bang Village, South Vietnam, June 8, 1972 1 HERO 1. Harvard’s Genius 7 2. Anonymous Research No. 4 29 3. American Kamikazes: Suicide Bomber Bats 45 4. We’ll Fight Mercilessly 52 5. The American Century 75 SOLDIER 6. Freedom’s Furnace 91 7. Vietnam Syndrome 109 8. Seeing Is Believing 126 9. Indicted 134 (cid:2) viii Contents PARIAH 10. Baby Burners 151 11. Trial of Fire 165 12. The Third Protocol 174 13. Judgment Day 193 14. The Weapon That Dare Not Speak Its Name 208 Epilogue: The Whole World Is Watching 223 Notes 231 Ac know ledg ments 301 Index 305 Napalm

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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 Nagas

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