{"product_id":"budas-wagon-a-brief-history-of-the-car-bomb-9781784786632","title":"Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Mike Davis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Verso\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Verso\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Terrorism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe brilliant and disturbing 100-year history of modern terrorism and car bombs--the ubiquitous weapon of urban mass destruction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45413042913431,"sku":"9781784786632","price":2368.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781784786632.webp?v=1767106531","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/budas-wagon-a-brief-history-of-the-car-bomb-9781784786632","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}