Product: NOVA: The Bombing of America (2006)
Rating: 3.0
Bombers and the Agencies That Catch Them
This work discusses tragic bombing cases and what forensic scientists have done to solve them. Viewers that like "The New Detectives" and "Forensic Files" will also like this. I worried that this disc may teach bombers, rather than prevent them from doing crimes. However, at one point, in the disc, they did say, "We can't say much on a certain bomb detecting technique because we don't want bombers to know about it."Like the shows I mentioned above, this work only discusses cases that were solved. Something tells me that plenty bombing incidents remain unsolved. This work was made in the mid-1990s, so Columbine and the destruction of the WTC don't come up. Global terrorism is not a topic here either. The work explores the psychological profiles of adult bombers, but it says nothing on that of teens. This is odd in that the work said many bombers are teens who gain instructions from the internet.Instead of following a chronological pattern, the work introduces the first major bombing case, a series of events that took place in the 1940s, later in time. I think this was done because the footage was not in color and may have bored modern viewers if it were at the beginning.