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budas wagon a brief history of the car bomb
p in this provocative history mike davis traces the car bombs 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 .
paperback verso 2008 isbn13 9781844672943 isbn10 1844672948
abridged n isbn 13 9781844672943 number in series 1 number of pages 228 publisher verso release date 62135769600000