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'''Aum Shinrikyo''', now continued as '''Aleph''', is a [[Japanese]] [[doomsday cult]] and terrorist organization founded by [[Shoko Asahara]] in [[1987]]. It carried out the deadly [[Tokyo subway sarin attack]] in [[1995]] and was found to have been responsible for the [[Matsumoto sarin attack]] the previous year.
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'''Aum Shinrikyo''', now continued as '''Aleph''',<ref>http://archive.today/2021.07.22-022244/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/26/national/crime-legal/key-events-related-aum-shinrikyo-cult/</ref> is a [[Japanese]] [[doomsday cult]] founded by [[Shoko Asahara]] in [[1987]]. It carried out the deadly [[Tokyo subway sarin attack]] in [[1995]] and was found to have been responsible for the [[Matsumoto sarin attack]] the previous year.
 
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==Research==
The cult experimented with all kinds of [[weapons of mass destruction]].
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The cult experimented with all kinds of [[weapons of mass destruction]]: [[biological weapon|biological]], [[chemical weapon|chemical]], [[lasers]] and [[Directed-energy weapon|microwave weapons]].<ref>(5) Electro-Magnetic Pulse Weapons. http://archive.today/2021.04.05-150855/https://fas.org/irp/threat/cyber/docs/npgs/ch2.htm</ref><ref>Yomiuri Shimbun, "Aum Linked with Microwave Weapons," http://archive.today/2021.04.05-151805/https://fas.org/irp/threat/cyber/docs/npgs/notes.htm</ref>
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==
 
* [https://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/revisiting-aum-shinrikyo-new-insights-most-extensive-non-state-biological-weapons-program-date-1/ Revisiting Aum Shinrikyo: New Insights into the Most Extensive Non-State Biological Weapons Program to Date]
 
* [https://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/revisiting-aum-shinrikyo-new-insights-most-extensive-non-state-biological-weapons-program-date-1/ Revisiting Aum Shinrikyo: New Insights into the Most Extensive Non-State Biological Weapons Program to Date]
 
* [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-the-life-sciences/article/aftermath-of-aum-shinrikyo-a-new-paradigm-for-terror/0374F0C077E2B21AD46926191553434A# The Aftermath of Aum Shinrikyo: A New Paradigm for Terror?]
 
* [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-the-life-sciences/article/aftermath-of-aum-shinrikyo-a-new-paradigm-for-terror/0374F0C077E2B21AD46926191553434A# The Aftermath of Aum Shinrikyo: A New Paradigm for Terror?]
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20180411091246/https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/aum_chrn.pdf Chronology of Aum Shinrikyos CBW Activities]
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20200906081636/https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/156879/CNAS_AumShinrikyo_SecondEdition_English.pdf Insights Into How Terrorists Develop Biological and Chemical Weapons]
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* [https://www3.trincoll.edu/csrpl/RINVol4No1/aum_shinrikyo.htm Religion in the News - Spring 2001, Vol. 4, No. 1]
  
 
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