Ted Kaczynski
Also known as Theodore John "Ted" Kaczynski, University and airline bomber, Theodore Kaczynski, The Unabomber, T. J. Kaczynski, Unabomber
Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign.
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Theodore John Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician who became a domestic terrorist after abandoning his academic career in 1969. He is historically significant because his prolonged bombing campaign and writings about technology and society shaped discussions about extremism, surveillance, and the dangers of radicalization.
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- Born
- 22 May 1942
- Died
- 10 June 2023
- Works
- 12
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- Manifeste
- Die industrielle Gesellschaft und ihre Zukunft
- Industrial Society and Its Future
- Sociedad Industrial y Su Futuro
- Technologische Sklaverei
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- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1942
- Active to
- 2023
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Theodore John Kaczynski (/kəˈzɪnski/ kə-ZIN-skee; May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber (/ˈjuːnəbɒmər/ YOO-nə-bom-ər), was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign.
Kaczynski murdered 3 people and injured 23 others between 1978 and 1995 in a nationwide mail bombing campaign against people he believed to be advancing modern technology and the destruction of the natural environment. He authored a roughly 35,000-word manifesto and social critique, Industrial Society and Its Future (1995), which opposes all forms of technology, rejects leftism, advocates cultural primitivism, and ultimately suggests violent revolution.