Napalm - An American Biography

About the author

Robert M. Neer is an attorney and Core Lecturer in the History Department at Columbia University.

Summary

Napalm was invented on Valentine’s Day 1942 at a secret Harvard war research laboratory. It created an inferno that killed over 87,500 people in Tokyo—more than died in the atomic explosions at Hiroshima or Nagasaki—and went on to incinerate 64 Japanese cities. The Bomb got the press, but napalm did the work. Neer offers the first history.

Product details

• Authors: Robert M Neer, Robert M. Neer
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.11.2015
• EAN: 9780674088085
• ISBN: 978-0-674-08808-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, military history, LAW / International, HISTORY / United States / General, HISTORY / Military / Weapons, Ethical issues: scientific & technological developments, Weapons & equipment, Ethical issues and debates, Weapons and equipment