Table of Contents

Foreword PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1: Armed Struggle: Evolving StrategiesChapter 2: Dynamiters to City DestroyersChapter 3: Spectaculars: "We have only to be lucky once"Chapter 4: Amassing the ArsenalChapter 5: Explosives: from Gunpowder to Magic Marble Chapter 6: Deadly Ingenuity: the Bomb TechnologiesChapter 7: Mortars: a Home-made Missile SystemChapter 8: "If you hit target, there was elation": The EngineersChapter 9: The Countermeasures Arms Race and the 'Long Walk'Chapter 10: Decommissioning: "Not a bullet: not an ounce"Chapter 11: Conclusion

About the Author

A. R. Oppenheimer is the Editor of NBC (Nuclear Biological Chemical) International magazine and an acknowledged specialist in weapons of mass destruction, explosives and counterterrorism. He has worked as a consultant on nuclear weapons to Jane's Information Group and for defence institutes in the UK and US. He contributes reports and analyses for defence and security journals and speaks regularly at conferences and professional seminars.