Napkin bombs, from Harvard to Vietnam

Louis Fieser - the inventor of the napalm, which is a chemist with many inventions in the field of medicine - said he never expected a napalm bomb to be used against humans.

Napkin bombs were invented at Harvard in the early 1940s. It was named after the naphthenic and palmitic acid compounds could turn gasoline or any kind of material into a highly-flammable and sticky weapon.

In the words of Robert N.Neer - a visiting lecturer at Columbia University (USA) - that is a weapon born as a 'hero' but becomes 'inferior' and now is considered 'evidence of war crimes'. Mr. Neer is the person who just released the 'Napalm: American History ' book - the first book to fully describe the history of napalm and reveal the story of how well this weapon is used. During World War II and the United States used napalm bombs during the Vietnam War.

The first trial of Harvard napalm (US) in 1942.

In the American Boston Globe newspaper, Neer said: In the 1960s and 1970s, in the Vietnam battlefield, the napalm became an icon, something was definitely true for Americans . Mr. Neer, two things happened to Vietnam. First, the United States lost the war, and in the antiwar movement, the napalm became a symbol of America's misguided actions in Vietnam, the loss brought about fundamental consequences of everyone for napalm. Secondly, communication about war in Vietnam is much like the destruction of a much more widespread napalm than in World War II, when most of the effects of napan bombs are in Japan - where reporters can't come to report.

During that time, napalm became the target of anti-war protesters who called for a campaign across the US to ask the Dow Chemical Co. to stop producing the bomb. However, the bomb is still in military ammunition stores and recently, used by the US when conducting war with Iraq.

Neer revealed that Louis Fieser - the inventor of the napalm, which was a chemist with many useful inventions in the medical field - never imagined that the napalm bombs would be used against human. He thinks it will be used for objects. He devoted his life to medicines and chemicals to help people. He helps create synthetic Vitamin K, and is a teacher loved by Harvard students.

He belongs to the group that has shown that smoking causes death. Therefore, he is a complicated person. However, according to Mr. Neer, despite respecting the assertion of Mr. Fieser, he never thought that the napalm bomb would be used against humans, it is still quite difficult to fully believe it. Because many of the napalm tests have been done with residential buildings, especially the German and Japanese models.

Mr. Fieser may be considered a genius, so it is hard to believe that he does not see the possibility that it will be used to attack people.