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Walter Paul Minx (February 7, 1917 – June 30, 2009) [1] was a young German immigrant who, in 1940, conspired with his brother Kurt, to extort $100,000 from a Sears Co. executive by threatening to blow up a Sears store in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Minx planned to abscond with the money in a home-built submarine but quick police work eventually led ...
Bomb threats were used to incite fear and violence during the American Civil Rights Movement, during which leader of the movement Martin Luther King Jr. received multiple bomb threats during public addresses, [3] [4] [5] and schools forced to integrate faced strong opposition, resulting in 43 bomb threats against Central High School in Arkansas being broadcast on TV and the radio.
[1] The booklet introduced general public to the effects of nuclear weapons and was aimed at calming down the fears surrounding them. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Survival Under Atomic Attack was the first entry in a series of government publications and communications that employed the strategy of "emotion management" in order to neutralize the horrifying ...
Bomb threats sent to polling places and ballot-counting locations in at least five battleground states across the U.S. Tuesday targeted mostly Democratic counties, an NBC News analysis has found.
On 9 December 2024, over 40 schools in Delhi received emails of bomb threats demanding a ransom of $30,000 and saying or else students would be injured by multiple small hidden explosives, causing school evacuations and widespread panic. [36] Also on 9 December, six hotels in Gurugram received bomb threats causing panic. Bomb squads and police ...
Wimbish is charged with mailing a bomb threat, conveying false information about a bomb threat, mailing a threatening letter and making false statements to the FBI. If convicted, he faces a ...
The former president, in the same press conference, was asked why he continues to spread misinformation following the bomb threats at schools. “No, no, no,” said Trump before the reporter ...
This sparked further work on the question of smuggled atomic devices during the 1950s. Discussions of non-state nuclear terrorism among experts go back at least to the 1970s. In 1975 The Economist warned that "You can make a bomb with a few pounds of plutonium. By the mid-1980s the power stations may easily be turning out 200,000 lb of the ...