South Africa in 1982 was at the height of the apartheid regime. Nelson Mandela was in prison and the revolutionary organization ANC operated in secret from surrounding countries. South Africa was also preparing to put its first nuclear power plant online. Rodney Wilkinson seemed like the last person you would suspect of being a political saboteur: he was white, a former national fencing champion, a veteran, and a contract employee at the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station. But Wilkinson's unwilling experience in the "secret" war with Angola had turned him against the South African government.
In December of 1982, Wilkinson managed to plant four bombs in the Koeberg plant, which detonated and caused $500 million in damage and set the nuclear plant back 18 months. Wilkinson bicycled away and wasn't identified until 1995, after Mandela was freed and the apartheid government had fallen. Read about the years of ANC planning that led to the Koeberg bombing and what happened to Wilkinson afterward at the Guardian. -via Metafilter
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