Davis Mike - Buda's Wagon A Brief History Of The Car Bomb - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: The brilliant and disturbing 100 - year history of modern terrorism and car bombs the ubiquitous weapon of urban mass destruction On a September day in 1920, an angry Italian anarchist named Mario Buda exploded a horse - drawn wagon filled with dynamite and iron scrap near New York's Wall Street killing 40 people. Since Buda's prototype the car bomb has evolved into a poor man's air force a generic weapon of mass destruction that now craters cities from Bombay to Oklahoma City. In this provocative history Mike Davis traces the its worldwide use and development in the process exposing the role of state intelligence agencies particularly those of the United States Israel India and Pakistan in globalizing urban terrorist techniques. Davis argues that it is the incessant impact of car bombs rather than the more apocalyptic threats of nuclear or bio - terrorism that is changing cities and urban lifestyles as privileged centers of power increasingly surround themselves with rings of steel against a weapon that nevertheless seems impossible to defeat.
Title: Buda's Wagon A Brief History Of The Car Bomb
Author(s): Davis Mike
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781784786632
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 1/17/2017
Series: The Essential Mike Davis
Category: Weapons & Equipment