Chemistry professor Louis Fieser of Harvard oversaw the bat bomb as well as some more practical incendiary weapon developments (such as napalm) during World War

Chemistry professor Louis Fieser of Harvard oversaw the bat bomb as well as some more practical incendiary weapon developments (such as napalm) during World War II. He published a book in 1964 about his wartime research including the bat bomb. You can see the full thing here: The Scientific Method: A Personal Account of Unusual Projects in War and in Peace https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/the_scientific_method.pdf https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/the_scienti... See in particular chapter 13, "Bat Bombs." The Wikipedia article is also worth reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb