How about “flame thrower”? Because, essentially, that is what it was. Not a weapon of mass destruction…but not something you want Beavis and Butt Head playing with in the basement of the school.
I used to make hydrogen balloons I used aluminum and lye and h2O, lit the tail and let them go.
Guess what, uncontrolled drone like things with an explo5ive payload.
when I did that 60 years ago no one would have considered them anything at all, but today who knows how I might get jacked up.
I wont even talk about my The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab