@article{1479233,
      recid = {1479233},
      author = {Neer, Robert M.,},
      title = {Napalm : An American Biography /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479233},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674075450},
}