What appear to be Russian white phosphorus attacks in Ukraine may be something even worse: a type of napalm cluster bomb developed in the Soviet era.

What distinguished Napalm B, the variant employed in Vietnam, was how easily it could be made. Simple "bathtub chemistry" was used to mix together a concoction of gasoline, benzene, and polystyrene.

The Record Thursday, April 5, 2001 A2 Navy gets rid of fire bomb FALLBROOK (AP -- The Navy bid farewell Wednesday to the last napalm stockpile in the United States -- a Vietnam-era relic that b… ...

Napalm has not been outlawed as a weapon of war, but a United Nations convention forbids its use against civilian populations. William Butler Yeats used the phrase “a terrible beauty is born ...

Regarding Robert H. Scales’s Aug. 14 op-ed, “Our bad options in Iraq”: Napalm was first used in war by the United States in the firebombing of German and Japanese cities, beginning in 1944.

What distinguished Napalm B, the variant employed in Vietnam, was how easily it could be made. Simple "bathtub chemistry" was used to mix together a concoction of gasoline, benzene, and polystyrene.