Hot Rod of the Apocalypse: The History of the Car Bomb (Part 2)
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Hot Rod of the Apocalypse: The History of the Car Bomb (Part 2)

With the quotidian workhorse of urban terror now well on its way, we round out our story by looking at how the car bomb became conscious of the city as its object, target and victim, its proliferation during the Iraq War years, and its seeming culmination as both a herald and producer of escalatory political nihilism.

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