August 17, 2001
The Fatal Bombing That Historians Ignore
The bomb that killed 168 people in Oklahoma City in 1995 was not the first fatal explosion set by an American antigovernment dissident. At 3:42 a.m., on August 24, 1970, the most powerful terrorist bomb to that date devastated the University of Wisconsin's Madison campus. The blast killed a physics student, Robert Fassnacht, and injured three others. It destroyed Sterling Hall, which housed the Army Mathematics Research Center, and caused millions of dollars of damage to more than 50 other
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