Bicycle Bomb - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • The 1955 novel The Quiet American by Graham Greene describes the use of bicycle bombs in Saigon.
  • The movie "Charlie Wilson's War" mentions the need for bicycle bombs in the Afghanistan resistance of the USSR.
  • There is a band called This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, and bicycles bearing the band's stickers have caused false evacuations at airports and universities.

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