Mass Casualty Bombings Chronology

References

• Principal sources include the RAND Chronology of International Terrorism (hereafter noted as RAND) for international incidents between 1968 and 1998; Jay Robert Nash, Terrorism in the 20th Century: A Narrative Encyclopedia from the Anarchists through the Weathermen to the Unabomber (New York: M. Evans and Co., 1998), "A Chronology of 20th Century Terrorism, 1900-1998," pages 289-412 (hereafter Nash) for domestic and international events from 1946 to 1998; and author research of open news sources, principally the New York Times, for all incidents from 1946 to 2000.
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