E b hirschberg had figured out a plan to turn their new jell into a bomb. He suggested inserting a stick of t and t with a layer of white phosphorus wrapped around it, in the middle of a canister of napom. Phosphorus burns at a very high temperature, so that t and t would go off, driving the burning phosphorus into the napom jell,. igniting it and sending globs of it in every direction.
Basement laboratories. Mad scientists. Sticky gels, and a bake-off in the desert. The strange story behind Curtis LeMay’s weapon of choice. Part two.
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