Word: anti-personnel
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...brush-off from Nixon," Fieser says. But he still doesn't regret having invented napalm; the United State's use of it to burn people, rather than buildings, is what bothers him. "When we were developing napalm," he says, "we never thought of any anti-personnel use. We were thinking in terms of wooden structures, factories...
...while the Faculty debated ROTC, protest against the Vietnam war dramatized the University's role in supporting the U.S. military. Napalm was invented in Harvard's labs. Much of the anti-personnel technology used on the electronic battlefield was developed from projects conducted by Harvard's Division of Engineering and Applied Physics...
Lemmer testified that Camil called the M-1 carbine "an ideal weapon for urban guerilla warfare" and showed Lemmer home-made chemical bombs, "anti-personnel devices" that spewed fiberglass shrapnel, and $2.60 wrist-rocket slingshots
...Marcello Caetano, dictator of Portugal. Freedom fighters in the three African colonies of Portugal have been struggling for over a decade to rid the continent of the last vestiges of nineteenth-century-style imperialism. Caetano's government has used napalm and anti-personnel weapons against the revolutionaries. He seems to have learned some lessons from Number...
American warplanes were already taking their toll in 1967. A ten-year-old kid, who guides a water buffalo plowing the rice fields, refuses to heed an air-raid warning, instead remaining with his animal. An anti-personnel bomb hits near him, killing the buffalo and tearing his shoulder to shreds with one of its sinister pellets. Greene shows him in a hospital, in screaming pain as his injury is being tended to. His agony, his tears, are a vivid reminder of the searing guilt no amount of post-war reparations could ever repay...