In October 1966, the first demonstration against the use of napalm was conducted at the Berkeley campus of the University of California and Wayne State University in Michigan.
In the following year, hundreds of protests continued in larger scale. The Dow Chemical Company who manufactured napalm for the U.S. government from 1965 to 1969 and its products were boycotted all over the country. Dow recruiters also faced a storm of protests by college students, who called them as “baby killers”.
Napalm continued to be used in Iraq (1980–88, 1991), Angola (1993) and Yugoslavia (1991-1996). However, because of its brutality, its use against concentrations of civilians was banned by the United Nations in 1980.
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