Explores the 1996 explosion of a 747 jet plane off the coast Long Island, New York, focusing on the investigation which led to new safety recommendations for fuel tank systems.
Provides an account of the terrorist attacks against Israeli athletes during the 1972 Olympic games, profiling some of the individuals involved and exploring the political and historical reasons for the acts.
An illustrated examination of the effects disasters have had on NASA and on attitudes toward American space exploration, discussing the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger explosion in detail.
Tells the story of the bombing of the World Trade Center by Islamic terrorists in 1993, discussing events leading up to the attack, the effect of the bomb, and the investigation and arrest of the perpetrators.
Describes the activities of the Spanish Inquisition, which used questioning, torture, and execution to battle heresy both in Spain and in the New World.
Describes the development and early flights of airships and the disastrous explosion of the passenger airship, Hindenberg, at a New Jersey airfield on May 6, 1937, in which thirty-six people were killed.
Presents a chronicle of the Salem Witch Trials, an episode in U.S. history in which the strange behavior of several young girls in colonial Salem was attributed to witchcraft leading to mass hysteria, accusations against townspeople, and over twenty executions and deaths.
