Have you heard of Li Mei barbecue?
Don’t get me wrong. This is not a barbecue stall , but an nickname for the famous American bombing of Tokyo during World War II .
At that time, the weapon used by the United States to bomb Tokyo was napalm bomb . After the explosion, a sea of fire would be set off around, causing all the combustible materials around to burn instantly.
Napalm bomb
After the United States was attacked by unethical Japanese, the Americans decided to teach the Japanese a lesson with a thorough revenge. They took away 140,000 Tokyo's lives through three air strikes by airdropping napalm bombs and burned 41,000 Tokyo's land in 41,000 square kilometers.
Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor
and the power of the napalm bomb also made Tokyo bombing the most casualties since World War II.
Therefore, in the eyes of the Japanese, the power of napalm bombs is probably only higher than that of nuclear weapon .
So, how did such a terrifying weapon be invented?
From ancient times to the present, humans have long been accustomed to using fire as a weapon in war
As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, my country invented weapons such as muskets and artillery, and used fire instead of weapons to cause large-scale damage to the enemy.
But with the development of technology, people gradually developed more powerful fire weapons. By the time in the early 20th century, when , Europeans began to bring gasoline into the fire war and developed flame-spray weapons that could use gasoline as fuel.
However, the flamethrower at that time had considerable disadvantages.
is that its fire spitting mouth is easily damaged by the high temperature of the fire that is sprayed, which can easily injure the soldiers holding weapons.
To solve this problem, Europeans tried to make the fire-breathing mouth as large as possible to prevent the muzzle from contacting the flame directly.
But in this case, the muzzle cannot concentrate the flames together, and the lethality caused by the flames will be dispersed. The purpose of concentrated killing cannot be achieved well.
Americans hiding in North America sold weapons were the first to overcome this problem.
They found that adding natural rubber to gasoline can better concentrate the energy of flamethrower , and will not damage the weapon flamethrower port.
So the Americans improved the flamethrower and created a weapon fueled by gasoline with natural rubber.
However, Southeast Asia, the main source of natural rubber during World War II, was actually controlled by the fascist country Japan at that time.
Therefore, although the United States has made epoch-making innovations in weapons, the lack of raw materials has overshadowed this innovation. The shortage of raw materials in
forced allies, including the United States, to actively develop substances that can replace natural rubber. Finally, a newer flamethrower - napalm bomb was born.
napalm bomb was improved in the original method, using a new fuel made of cycloalkane acid , gasoline and palmitic acid. The mixture of
cycloalkane acid and palmitic acid makes the chemical properties of gasoline more active, burn more fully, and the explosion effect is more intense.
Therefore, napalm bombs have much more power than other flamethrowers.
And when the napalm bomb explodes, the excess gasoline in the gas bomb stock will splash out, instantly igniting nearby combustibles, and directly causing bursts of raging fires around the explosion.
and napalm spread very quickly, and the fire spreads immediately as soon as the wind blows, making it very difficult to extinguish.
In order to prevent the napalm bomb from being extinguished after it exploded, the Americans also added some lively alkaline metals to the gasoline bombs.
These lively alkali metals are very easy to bind to the hydrogen atom in the air, so the fire after the explosion is very difficult to extinguish.
The conventional rolling and watering fire extinguishing are useless. Only by isolating the air can it be possible to block the combustion of flames. Shortly after the napalm bomb was developed, the Americans were still crazy about upgrading this weapon that ruined the world.
enables it to maintain the highest rate of combustion on the attachment, and can instantly combine with oxygen in the air to release a large amount of carbon monoxide . The whole process is very tormenting and causing people in the center of the explosion to suffocate and even slowly get poisoned.
In order to maximize the practicality of this weapon, the Americans even built some Japanese-style German buildings in some sparsely populated places, and then bombarded these buildings with this gasoline bomb to test whether the weapon is suitable for Germany and Japan.
Finally, they made napalm bombs that adapted to the Japanese and German architectural style and terrain respectively.
When this weapon was developed to the final stage, the Americans believed that it was already a perfect weapon of war, so they put it into various battlefields of World War II, including the aforementioned Tokyo bombing, Vietnam War , etc.
has had a great impact on the population and environment of these regions.
is defined by many countries as an anti-human weapon
After the end of World War II, many countries jointly declared that they demanded that the United Nations prohibit the use of this weapon. The United Nations has limited strict conditions for the use of many spitfire weapons, including napalm bombs, for humanitarian .
napalm bomb has also withdrawn from the stage of history.
