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The first mail bomb?

B Burnett·P Golubovs
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Abstract

A news item in the newspaper, the Evening Star, for the Country, October 18, 1833, probably is the first report of a mail bomb in the United States. It is also likely to be the first defusing of a mail bomb. The device appeared to be extraordinarily sophisticated and would have likely worked had it not been for suspicions of the recipient of the bomb.

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B Burnett, P Golubovs. 2000. The first mail bomb?. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10914604/

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