Napalm… one of the sickest things around

“You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn’t find one of ‘em, not one stinkin’ dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like - victory” Apocalypse now (1979)

boy burned by napal

The one image above may say it all… an image speaks a thousand words and this one speaks volumes about destructive weapons. I gotta say here, I watch the Military channel, I watch as the pilots fly over the targets, drop the bombs and cheer as they pat each other on the back for hitting the targets… I wonder if they would still be cheering if they saw the destruction and pain within those balls of flame.

this is edited from the definition of NAPALM Wikipedia and is what the shit is made of…

Napalm is any of a number of flammable liquids used in warfare, often jellied gasoline. Napalm is actually the thickener in such liquids, which when mixed with gasoline makes a sticky gel. The name is a combination of the names of ingredients, naphthenic and palmitic acids. These were added to the flammable substance to cause it to gel.

OK, end of the Wikipedia description for Napalm

There are many types of napalm, many different compositions of this crap are around and have been for many years and many wars.

Napalm is a powder that is mixed with gasoline to set fire and instill fear. It is a gel or thick solution to make it adhere to surfaces.

Napalm will kill or wound by immolation and by asphyxiation. It burns the victims in various degrees. The asphyxiation comes from the carbon monoxide produced, it makes it hard to breathe causing the victims to pass out. A tiny percent of this in the air is fatal within less than an hour because it replaces the oxygen with carbon monoxide.

the above photo

Kim Phuc was the subject of a Pulitzer-Prize winning photograph during the Vietnam War taken. She was a child, running naked down a road, screaming in pain from the napalm that was burning through her skin.

A large amount of carbon monoxide is produced once a napalm bomb is set off, which makes it hard for people to breathe, causing them to pass out and burn. When Napalm ignites, it rapidly deoxygenates the available air. Oxygen is replaced with carbon monoxide (CO) as a result of incomplete combustion. As little as 0.4 percent CO is fatal in one hour because of the high affinity between carbon monoxide and hemoglobin. Napalm creates a localized atmosphere of at least 20 percent carbon monoxide.

By the way, Napalm was developed at Harvard University in 1942 by chemistry professor Louis F. Fiese. I wonder if he knew the horrors that he was working on since so many of the victims of this were civilians

Modern day napalm uses no Napalm (naphthalene or palmitate) — Its a mixture of polystyrene, gasoline and benzene. After the Korean War they tried to make a so called “safer” Napalm.

as a note….

An article by the San Diego Union Tribune revealed on August 5, 2003, that incendiary weapons were in fact used against Iraqi troops in the course of Operation Iraqi Freedom, as Marines were fighting their way to Baghdad. The denial by the US DOD was issued on the technical basis that the incendiaries used consisted primarily of kerosene-based jet fuel (which has a smaller concentration of benzene), rather than the traditional mixture of gasoline and benzene used for napalm, and that these therefore did not qualify as napalm.

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