IN THE UNITED STATES
The Sterling Hall bombing occurred on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus on August 24, 1970, and was committed by four men as a protest against the university's research connections with the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. The bomb, set off at 3:42 AM, was intended to destroy the Army Mathematics Research Center (AMRC) housed on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors of the building. This was an Army-funded think tank. The staff at the center, at the time of the bombing, consisted of about 45 mathematicians, about 30 of them full-time. It resulted in the death of a university physics researcher, injured three others and caused significant destruction to the physics department and its equipment.