Blowback
Overview
 
Blowback may refer to one of the following:
  • Blowback (intelligence)
    Blowback (intelligence)
    Blowback is the espionage term for the violent, unintended consequences of a covert operation that are suffered by the civil population of the aggressor government...

  • Blowback (firearms)
  • Blowback (forensics)
    Blowback (forensics)
    Blowback in forensics refers to vacuum effect created in the barrel of a firearm when it is discharged.After the weapon is fired, air races into the barrel once the bullet has left the muzzle...

    , vacuum effect created in the barrel of a firearm when it is discharged
  • Blowback (military) - Negative effects suffered from one's own weapons, such as nuclear fallout
    Nuclear fallout
    Fallout is the residual radioactive material propelled into the upper atmosphere following a nuclear blast, so called because it "falls out" of the sky after the explosion and shock wave have passed. It commonly refers to the radioactive dust and ash created when a nuclear weapon explodes...

     blown onto one's own troops or civilian population
  • Blowback (film)
    Blowback (film)
    Blowback is a 2000 film directed by Mark L. Lester. It follows detective Morrell as he investigates whether a series of murders, identical to those by Wittman , executed years ago, are copycat or if they could be Wittman himself...

     - a 2000 film
  • Blowback (book) - a 2000 book on American Empire by Chalmers Johnson
    Chalmers Johnson
    Chalmers Ashby Johnson was an American author and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He served in the Korean War, was a consultant for the CIA from 1967–1973, and chaired the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley from 1967 to 1972...

     ISBN 0805075593.
  • Blowback (album)
    Blowback (album)
    Blowback is the sixth album by Tricky, released in 2001. Like Nearly God, Blowback contains several collaborations, but the album's sound is much brighter and more relaxed by comparison. Tricky himself said that he wanted to get airplay with this album, while most of his earlier albums were made to...

     - a 2001 release by rapper Tricky
    Tricky
    Tricky is an English musician and actor. As a producer and a musician, he is noted for a dark, rich and layered sound and a whispering sprechgesang lyrical style. Culturally, Tricky encourages an intertwining of societies, particularly in his musical fusion of rock and hip hop, high art and pop...

  • Blowback (2005 novel) - a novel by Brad Thor
  • Blowback (2010 novel) - the third novel in the Lashkar
    Laskhar (novel)
    Lashkar is a best selling novel by an Indian author, Mukul Deva. It is a fast paced Tom Clancy-type action thriller about a fictional terror attack in Delhi, masterminded by Pakistan's Intelligence Agencies, and the Indian government's befitting retort in the form of Force 22, an elite unit of the...

    series by Mukul Deva
    Mukul Deva
    Mukul Deva is a best-selling Indian English author, noted for the spy-military thrillers on terrorism, Lashkar, Salim must die, Blowback, etc...

  • Blowback (jurisprudence) - The practice of printing electronic documents to paper (blowing them back to tangible form).
 
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