At 5:20 PM on 9/11/01 the only building with a World Trade Center address that stood on a different block from the rest of the complex, 47-story steel-framed 7 World Trade Center, underwent a sudden total collapse. Officials and all government reports published since the attack that mention the building blame its collapse on a combination of structural damage and subsequent fires. However, the available evidence on the condition of Building 7 prior to its collapse fails to document more than superficial structural damage (from the “collapses” of the Twin Towers) and small isolated fires. The official explanations of WTC 7′s collapse are problematic for several reasons: Fire has never caused any steel-framed high-rise building to collapse in any manner, let alone with the vertical precision of Building 7′s destruction. 1 Other steel-framed skyscrapers have experienced far more serious fires than Building 7. WTC 7 fell straight down, which necessitated that all of the load-bearing columns be broken at the same moment. Inflicting such damage with the precision required to prevent a building from toppling and damaging adjacent buildings is what the science of controlled demolition is all about. No random events, such as the debris damage and fires envisioned by the official reports, or explosions from fuel tanks proposed by some, could be expected to result in such a tidy and complete collapse. WTC 7 fell precipitously, at a rate closely approaching the speed of gravitational …

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