The Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995 was one of the worst cases of domestic terrorism. One hundred and sixty-eight people were killed and more than six hundred and eighty were injured. The blast caused an estimated damage of $652 million, damaging over three hundred buildings and burning over eighty cars. The Federal Emergency Management Agency activated 665 workers who assisted in the recovery.
The co-conspirators were Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichol and Michael Fortier, all Army veterans. Each shared an interest in survivalsim.1 They were angered at the government’s handling of the Branch Davidian standoff. After McVeigh visited the site in Waco, Texas, he decided to bomb a federal building in response to the raid. Together McVeigh and Fortier visited the Alfred p. Murrah Federal Building. Since the building had been previously targeted the McVeigh selected it for their target. Coincidently the founder of the group of the previous target, Richard Snell was executed the same day as the bombing. Fortier was unaware of the bombing plot at this point.
Nichols and McVeigh bought or stole the materials needed to make a bomb. Their stored their goods in sheds. McVeigh also purchases nine binary explosives from a good collectors. Nichols bought one hundred pounds of ammonium nitrate. McVeigh, posing as a motorcycle racer, obtained three 55-gallon drums of nitro methane. McVeigh then rented a storage space to store all the materials. He made a prototype using a Gatorade jug. It was detonated in the desert to avoid detection.2 On April 14, 1955 McVeigh rented a motel room in Junction City, Kansas. The next morning he rented a Ryder truck using the alias of Robert Kling. Kling was a soldier McVeigh knew in the Army and shared similar physical traits. On April 16 McVeigh and Nichols drove to Oklahoma City and parked a getaway car blocks from the building. The removed the license plate and put a not over the VIN that read "Not abandoned. Please do not tow. Will...