Buda´s wagon. A brief history of the car bomb

Mike Davis traces the worldwide use and the development of the cars bomb "the poor man´s air force", in the process exposing the role of the state intelligence agencies in globalizing urban terrorist techniques. Davis argues that it is the incessant impact of car bombs, that is changing cities urban lifestyles, as privileged centers of power increasingly surround themselves with "rings of steel" against a weapon that nevertheless seems impossible to defeat