Bombs and Bombings: A Handbook to Protection, Security, Disposal, and Investigation for Industry, Police and Fire DepartmentsThis expanded new edition provides law enforcement personnel, firefighters, and security professionals with the most up-to-date information and procedures on the investigation, detection, and disposal of dangerous bombs and explosives and the evidence obtained from them. The text contains a general outline of the procedures employed in processing both commercial and homemade explosives, military explosive ordnance, bombs, improvised explosive devices, suspected packages, infernal machines, bomb scares, explosions, bombings, and related incidents. Examples from real life experiences are offered to explain the reasons for the procedures. These case histories cover a wide variety of examples of bombings of persons, buildings, automobiles, trains, ships, and aircraft. Checklists at the end of chapters provide step-by-step procedures so that the specialist can use them as a guide or alter them with the individual circumstances. This edition contains 56 additional new illustrations from actual cases to further describe the examples as reasons for the methods used in the text. |
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EXPLOSIVE AND BOMB DISPOSAL SERVICES AND TRAINING 2 BOMB TRANSPORTERS 3 EQUIPMENT | 3 |
DEFINITIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF EXPLOSIVES | 4 |
EXPLOSIVES AND BOMB LAWS | 5 |
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