Brodie's Bombs and Bombings: A Handbook to Protection, Security, Detection and Investigation for Industry, Police and Fire Departments - Softcover

Jim Smith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0398090939 ISBN 13: 9780398090937

Publisher: Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

Bombs and Bombings is the definitive text regarding the construction of bombs and the motivation for bombings in the U.S. Although some law enforcement-sensitive material is excluded from this book, it 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. The book provides and overview that those involved in law enforcement, security, and counterterrorism will find elucidating and beneficial in bomb-related operations and mitigation efforts.

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Review:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0398090939
• ISBN 13: 9780398090937
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 318