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Buda's Wagon - A Brief History of the Car Bomb (Paperback)
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Buda's Wagon - A Brief History of the Car Bomb (Paperback)
Series: The Essential Mike Davis
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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.
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