Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On 23 Feb 2025 15:56:12 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
 

Agent Orange as well as napalm were never intended to be used the way they
wound up.  Agent Orange was mostly 2,4-D and the notion is that it was going
to be a non-toxic way to expose the HCM trail so Americans could at least
determine the amount of traffic coming down from the north and maybe stop it.
Napalm was also originally intended as a defoliant for more rapid spot use.

 I recall reading in "Popular Mechanics" back in the early 1950ws about
the uses of napalm in the Korean War. A particularly vivid memory was
a diagram showing the effects of dropping it at either entrance of a
railway tunnel with the train inside. If the people on the train
didn't burn to death, they would suffocate from lack of oxygen as the
napalm consumed it all.