In article , Larry Jaques says...

Until 9/11, no one considered an airliner as a WMD.

Ditto a batch of fertilizer and can of diesel fuel until OK City.

Flat-out untrue. The physics building in UW madison was detonated
by exactly such a device. The folks who wanted to blow up
the US Army Math Research Center decided that the physics
building (Sterling Hall) looked like a better target for some
unknown reason, and parked their van full of high-nitrate
fertilizer that had been soaked in fuel oil outside and set
it off.

They killed Robert Fassnacht, a researcher who was working
in the building that night.

I worked in the shop directly inside of the blast area, and
one could still see the gouge marks in the concrete floor where
equipment had been blown across the room - the marks all
radiated from one point on the exterior wall.

This event happened in the mid 70s IIRC.

Jim

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