Napalm, a syrupy kind of jellied gasoline, was used in Vietnam to burn forests and villages and people, without discrimination. It burned through everything, at more than 5,000 degrees, ...

US riverboat using napalm in Vietnam. U.S. Naval War College Museum. Some people have called World War I “the Chemists’ War” for its use of substances like chlorine and mustard gas.

In April 1998 a rail car full of napalm, which had been stored at the Fallbrook Naval Weapons Station near Camp Pendleton since the Vietnam War, was left in limbo after a firm in East Chicago, Ind ...

Napalm burns at temperatures ranging from 800°C to 1,200°C (1,472°F to 2,192°F). ... Napalm, a thickened gasoline or diesel fuel, is among the most commonly used incendiary substances.

Danger of Gasoline. His latest trip to Viet Nam, in fact, ... Of all the burn cases—by accident or by non-napalm weaponry—that came to his attention, only 5% required plastic surgery.

Ordered by Saddam Hussein, Iraqi air force planes dropped napalm, mustard gas and other deadly agents on Halabja, Iraq. Getty Images. In addition, the Kurds were able to gain local autonomy, with ...

The girl in the photograph, Kim Phúc Phan Thị, defected to Canada some decades later. In 2022, she penned an op-ed in The New York Times, looking back on the 50 years since the picture was ...

Read more: 'Napalm Girl' photographer Nick Ut looks back at a career that included war's carnage and Hollywood's red carpets “We interviewed 55 people, 45 on camera, and did the forensic ...

The image, captured 53 years ago this weekend during the Vietnam War, galvanized the anti-war movement in the U.S. But a new documentary raises questions about who was behind the camera.