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1965: The United States bombs Vietnam with napalm for the first time

Despite the fact that the United Nations Convention banned the use of napalm in 1980, the United States has not paid for that crime that marked the history of Vietnam
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Published at: 07/02/2025 10:25 AM


On February 7, 1965, the United States bombed Vietnam for the first time with napalm, a chemical weapon made with viscous gasoline, organic acid (palmitic, naphthenic, among others), a terrorist act that left serious burns to the Asian country's civilian population.

Despite the fact that the United Nations Convention banned the use of napalm in 1980, the empire showed its cruelest face during the Vietnam War.

Among the images that made history, the one of Kim Phuc, a Vietnamese girl, who, with her burned skin, fled with other children who were victims of the acid of that lethal weapon in 1972.

Mazo News Team