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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,alt.usage.english
Subject: Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned
Date: 25 Feb 2025 00:33:08 -0000
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Steve Hayes  <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
>On 23 Feb 2025 15:56:12 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
>
>>Agent Orange as well as napalm were never intended to be used the way they
>>wound up.  Agent Orange was mostly 2,4-D and the notion is that it was going
>>to be a non-toxic way to expose the HCM trail so Americans could at least
>>determine the amount of traffic coming down from the north and maybe stop it.
>>Napalm was also originally intended as a defoliant for more rapid spot use.
>
>I recall reading in "Popular Mechanics" back in the early 1950ws about
>the uses of napalm in the Korean War. A particularly vivid memory was
>a diagram showing the effects of dropping it at either entrance of a
>railway tunnel with the train inside. If the people on the train
>didn't burn to death, they would suffocate from lack of oxygen as the
>napalm consumed it all. 

Indeed.  It can be used in all sorts of horrible ways, and people did.
And likely will again.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."