Who remembers the idiotic move by then Congressman Blagorgeous to try and require that napalm shipments be announced to communities they were being shipped through. This makes about as much sense as announcing when gasoline is being shipped through your community–actually less sense.
Napalm is essentially a jelly form of gasoline liked by militaries because it sticks to things like people and continues to burn unlike liquid gasoline that burns itself up too quickly.
Shipping it is safer than gasoline because if there is a spill, it doesn’t leak into the ground rapidly or spread itself nearly as wide as regular gasoline. But leaving it tanks does open up the chance that it will slowly leak out and enter things like water supplies where it is stored. Shipping it for permanent diposal is a good strategy and Blagojevich spent a bunch of time fighting it based on it having a scary name.
Actually, napalm, until prepared for use is in powder form which looks much like laundry detergent. It becomes gelatinous when mixed with avgas just before use. I know, because I dropped a good bit of this stuff about 35 years ago.
making it even safer to transport….