In 1942, a team led by Harvard chemist Louis Fieser developed a thickened incendiary mixture that changed the way fire could be used in war. Ordinary gasoline burned quickly and dispersed. Napalm ...
World Press Photo has cast fresh doubt over the authorship of “The Terror of War,” a picture better known as “Napalm Girl,” amid growing debate about one of ...
It is among the most harrowing images of the Vietnam War. On June 8, 1972, an Associated Press photographer took a picture of Vietnamese children running in terror ...