Word: napalm
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...suppose Dow was singled out for this attention because the use of Napalm has a way of heightening the moral indignation of the imagination. One thinks "to burn alive" and shudders...
...Ford sets in context those events that led to holding a representative of the Dow Chemical Co. hostage. This was in protest of Dow's sales of Napalm to the government and in protest of Harvard opening its doors and giving Dow an opportunity to recruit at Harvard...
...When the attack began, Ridley and his squad found themselves out on patrol a quarter of a mile from the camp and with a direct view of the enemy's principal rallying point. Time and again as the Communists moved to fresh attack, Ridley called down explosives and napalm right on their heads-once within 16 yards of his own position in a crater. When the V.C. finally gave up and withdrew at dawn, they had killed 23 Americans, but at the huge cost of 355 of their own dead left behind on the battlefield...
...discovery was something of a coup for Fieser. His research team at Harvard beat chemists from Du Pont and Standard Oil in a Government competition to develop napalm. In the course of his research, Fieser found a perfectly good civilian use for the product: it made a fine crabgrass killer, burning away its seeds while leaving good grass roots untouched. During and after World War II, he received several letters of thanks for his invention, which soldiers claimed saves thousands of American lives in battle. No one ever complained to him about the use of napalm until Viet...
Unlike some of the physicists who helped produce the atomic bomb, Fieser has no moral qualms about his role in producing one of modern warfare's most fearful weapons: "I have no right to judge the morality of napalm just because I invented it." Nor does he blame the Dow Chemical Co. for manufacturing napalm: "If the Government asked them to take a contract, and they're the best ones in a position to do so, then they're obliged...