Napalm

INTRODUCTION Humans have discussed and argued about the morality and ethical connotations of war, and the means in which we conduct our wars, for thousands of years. Every major civilization in our world has an evolved tradition on what is and is not acceptable on the battlefields in which we meet. These traditions and views continue to change based on a reflection on similar concerns. These concerns are the questions to which we seek answers to that help shape who we are as individuals and countries

The Korean War (Dun, dun, dunnn) Imagine you are a North Korean soldier fighting in the Korean war, you feel triumphant because you just invaded South Korea. When all of a sudden the US intervenes with large guns and dangerous chemicals. How do you feel now? That was only a small scene in the Korean War. The Cold War went along the United States’s idea of containment. Containment is the thought that communism was like a disease that needed to be contained. The communist parties wanted to spread

The longest recorded and arguably one of the most controversial wars in American history is the Vietnam war. In 1959, the communist government of North Vietnam had devised a guerrilla campaign in democratic South Vietnam. The government of North Vietnam had the goal of uniting both countries under a communist reign. The United States quickly became an ally with South Vietnam because they feared the spread of communism. The aftermath of the war resulted in sixty thousand American deaths and two million

Dow retailed it to the US army who used it to clear the dense jungles of in Vietnam. Medical Committee for Human Rights was a Dow shareholder at the time and they were against using napalm to clear the jungles. The shareholders submitted a proposal to force the Dow Company to stop selling napalm propellant; unless they could obtain assurances that it would not be used to injury people. The committee proposed in an appropriate manner and in proper form would have the proposal included in

Dow’s Expansion into Nuclear Weapons and the Aftermath Rocky Flats Plant, a nuclear weapons production facility managed by Dow from 1951 to 1975, produced plutonium triggers for hydrogen bombs. A number of accidents took place under Dow’s management during this period. In 1957, radioactive particles were released into the atmosphere due to the burning of plutonium dust by a fire in the facility. In 1967, 3,500 barrels (560 m3) of lubricants and solvents, laden with plutonium, leaked into the ground

The Vietnam war started as a U.S. strategy of authority in times of the cold war, which was directed to prevent the advancement of communism in the world. The War had begun in 1954, after the rise of power with Ho Chi Minh and his communist Viet Minh party in North Vietnam, and continued against the backdrop of an intense Cold War against the United States and the Soviet Union. More than 3 million people were killed, including 58,000 Americans. In 1975, communist forces took control of Saigon

Historical Context This photo was taken near Trang Bang, of a 9 year old girl (Phan Thị Kim Phúc) whose clothes were burned off during the Napalm strike on 8 june 1972 by photographer: Nick Ut. between the period (1957-1975), Vietnam became independent from France, Vietnam was separated into two parts; North Vietnam(communist) and South Vietnam(capitalist), North Vietnam wanted Vietnam as a whole to become Communist, however; the United States and South Vietnamese army tried to prevent this happening(Domino

a considerable number of incendiary devices, the most infamous of these being the Napalm. This was a mixture of petrol and a chemical thickener which produced a tough sticky gel that attached itself to the skin and once ignited had the potential to burn up to 2,760 degrees Celsius . Although this was not new to warfare as it was deployed when America bombed Japan in World War Two, the variant used in Vietnam, Napalm B(2) was by and large more effective as instead it burned for up to 10 minutes rather

the Vietcong, the ARVN were intrinsically connected to all war efforts. The weapon that produced the most amount of devastation to the landscape, to humans, and to villages was a chemical weapon called “Napalm”. Napalm was invented by Frederick Fieser during the second World War.

American casualties and the soldiers who did survive suffer from many mental and physical problems to this day nearly forty-three years later. The Vietnam war was well known for its chemical warfare. The two most common chemicals were substances called napalm and agent orange. The war was also well known as America's biggest mistake for warfare. Soldiers who served were disrespected and disgraced after their return. And many of the politicians in office were threatened and the government was beginning