napalm

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Particularly feared by civilians was the use of napalm bombs, with more than 400,000 tons of the thickened petroleum used during the war.

From Salon

So if you get asked a tough question about Biden and Gaza or whatever, you respond: "What's the Republican policy in Gaza? It'd be to napalm Gaza and erect a Trump Tower."

From Salon

He cited a line from the film “Apocalypse Now”: “I love the smell of napalm in the morning!”

From New York Times

Buell made the crucial decision in 1972 to run Ut’s photo of a naked young girl fleeing her village after being torched by napalm dropped by South Vietnamese Air Force aircraft.

From Seattle Times

In their typical self-aggrandizing style, a Trump campaign member told Semafor they plan on "dropping napalm after napalm on his head reminding the public of his very liberal views."

From Salon