Twenty-five years ago, a truck bomb detonated in front of a federal building, killing at least 168 people and injuring more than 680 people. How did enterprise security change after the event?
At 9:02 a.m., on the morning of April 19, 1995, a truck bomb, containing more than 4,800 pounds of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, nitromethane and diesel fuel mixture, detonated in front of the north side of the nine-story the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City, Okla. The bombing killed at least 168 people, injured more than 680 others and destroyed one-third of the building. The blast destroyed or damaged 324 other buildings within a 16-block radius, shattered glass in 258 nearby buildings and destroyed or burned 86 cars. The bombing left behind an estimated $652 million worth of damage.
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Source: Security magazine