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John Kaczynski (/kəˈzɪnski/ kə-ZIN-skee; born May 22, 1942), also known as the

Unabomber (/ˈjuːnəbɒmər/), is an American domestic terrorist and former mathematics


professor.[3][4] Between 1978 and 1995, Kaczynski killed three people and injured
23 others in a nationwide mail bombing campaign against people he believed to be
advancing modern technology and the destruction of the environment. He authored
Industrial Society and Its Future, a 35,000-word manifesto and social critique
opposing industrialization, rejecting leftism, and advocating for a nature-centered
form of anarchism.[5]

In 1971, Kaczynski abandoned his academic career to pursue a primitive life, moving
to a remote cabin without electricity or running water near Lincoln, Montana, where
he lived as a recluse while learning survival skills to become self-sufficient.
After witnessing the destruction of the wilderness surrounding his cabin, he
concluded that living in nature was becoming impossible and resolved to fight
industrialization and its destruction of nature through terrorism. In 1979,
Kaczynski became the subject of what was, by the time of his arrest, the longest
and most expensive investigation in the history of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI).[6] The F

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