title: Brodie's Bombs and Bombings: A Handbook to Protection, Security, Detection and Investigation for Industry, Police and Fire Departments
author:  Jim Smith 
description: Synopsis: Now in a newly updated fourth edition, Brodie's Bombs and Bombings: A Handbook to Protection, Security, Detection and Investigation for Industry, Police and Fire Departments by Colonel Jim Smith continues to be the definitive text regarding the construction of bombs and the motivation for bombings in the U.S.<br /> <br />Although some law enforcement-sensitive material is excluded, Brodie's Bombs and Bombings still presents a thorough understanding of why bombs and bombings remain a constant threat. The chemistry of explosives and how such affects the performance of explosives are an essential part of the text. The reader is taken through a short course on explosive engineering and the chemistry of explosives.<br /> <br />A brief history of bombings provides insight as to how improvised explosive devices were used to shape history and how the situations of the early 1900s are repeating themselves today. While many believe that suicide bombings are something seen only in the Middle East, this text explores the suicide bombings in the U.S. and the motivation of the bombers. Various profiles of several famous bombers such as the Unabomber and the Mad Bomber are reviewed along with other psychological issues that might inspire bombers.<br /> <br />The use of bombs to disperse radioactive materials in the radiation dispersion device configuration is addressed along with the technique used to disperse chemical and biological agents with explosives. Booby traps, especially those targeting law enforcement, are explained, and methods to detect booby traps are developed to allow a rudimentary understanding of the process.<br /> <br />Methods to identify clandestine laboratories manufacturing explosives or other drugs such as methamphetamine are identified providing the reader with an understanding of the items to identify and differentiate the types of laboratories.<br /> <br />Numerous bombings are examined providing an insight as to why and how the attacks were successful. Mitigation techniques such as using alcohol resistant aqueous film-forming foam to suppress blast and fragment formation are explained along with deployment methods.<br /> <br />The text is richly illustrated with photographs depicting IEDs, explosives, and booby traps to assist in the identification of suspicious objects, suspect packages, or potential mail bombs. Brodie's Bombs and Bombings provides and overview that those involved in law enforcement, security, and counterterrorism will find elucidating and beneficial in bomb-related operations and mitigation efforts.<br /> <br />Critique: Exceptionally well written, definitively informative, impressively organized and deftly presented, Brodie's Bombs and Bombings: A Handbook to Protection, Security, Detection and Investigation for Industry, Police and Fire Departments is an ideal textbook for police department, fire department, college and university bomb making, bomb identifying, bomb defusing, and bomb disposing instructional curriculums and reference collections. --Willis M. Buhle/The Midwest Book Review/Reviewer's Bookwatch/July 2016
zlib_text: Johnny and the Bomb 
  by Terry Prachett 
   
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  I would like to thank the Meteorological Office, the Royal Mint and my old friend Bernard 
  Pearson - who, if he doesn't know something, always knows a man who does - for their help in 
  the research for this book. When historical details are wrong, it's my fault for not listening. But 
  who knows what really happened in the other leg of the Trousers of Time? 
   
   
  After the Bombs 
   
  It was nine o'clock in the evening, in Blackbury High Street. 
   
  It was dark; with occasional light from the full moon behind streamers of worn-out cloud. 
  The wind was from the south-west and there had been another thunderstorm, which freshened 
  the air and made the cobbles slippery. 
   
  A policeman moved, very slowly and sedately, along the street. 
   
  Here and there, if someone was very close, they might have seen the faintest line of light 
  around a blacked-out window. From within came the quiet sounds of people living their lives