A letter bomb is an explosive device sent via the postal service, and designed with the intention to injure or kill the recipient when opened. They have been used in terrorist attacks such as those of
A mail bomb on display at the National Postal Museum
Robert Harley was targeted in one of the earliest modern parcel bombing incidents
Parcel bomb sent to Madame Tussauds in 1889
FBI reproduction of one of Theodore Kaczynski's bombs
Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primit
Letter bomb
…service, and designed with the intention to injure or kill the recipient when opened. They have been used in terrorist attacks such as those of the Unabomber. Some countries have agencies whose duties include the interdiction of letter bombs and the investigation of letter bombings. The letter bomb may have…
Kaczynski after his arrest in 1996
8 Prescott St, Kaczynski's home during his first year at Harvard
Kaczynski's diplomas from Harvard University and the University of Michigan
Kaczynski as an assistant professor at UC Berkeley in 1968