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The Night an Antiwar Bomb Killed an Innocent Scientist
The Night an Antiwar Bomb Killed an Innocent Scientist
The campus trembled at 3:42 a.m. on August 24, 1970, when roughly 2,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil detonated and sent a Ford Econoline van's remains onto an eight‑story roof three blocks from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Army Mathematics Research Center, the stated target, was scarcely damaged while 26 buildings took the force-so how did a postdoc with no military ties end up dead in the basement of Sterling Hall?
In this episode, we tell what happened the night Robert Fassnacht went in to finish an experiment and…
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