Napalm: An American BiographyNapalm, incendiary gel that sticks to skin and burns to the bone, came into the world on Valentines Day 1942 at a secret Harvard war research laboratory. On March 9, 1945, it created an inferno that killed over 87,500 people in Tokyomore than died in the atomic explosions at Hiroshima or Nagasaki. It went on to incinerate sixty four of Japans largest cities. The Bomb got the press, but napalm did the work. After World War II, the incendiary held the