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| − | '''Aum Shinrikyo''', now continued as '''Aleph''', is a [[Japanese]] [[doomsday cult]] | + | '''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. |
| − | + | ==Research== | |
| − | The cult experimented with all kinds of [[weapons of mass destruction]]. | + | 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?] | ||
| + | * [http://web.archive.org/web/20180411091246/https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/aum_chrn.pdf Chronology of Aum Shinrikyos CBW Activities] | ||
| + | * [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] | ||
| + | * [https://www3.trincoll.edu/csrpl/RINVol4No1/aum_shinrikyo.htm Religion in the News - Spring 2001, Vol. 4, No. 1] | ||
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Latest revision as of 21:56, 26 January 2022
 Aum Shinrikyo(Cult)   | |
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| Formation | 1987 |
| Leader | Shoko Asahara |
| Cult with a lot of scientists involved. | |
Aum Shinrikyo, now continued as Aleph,[1] 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.
Research
The cult experimented with all kinds of weapons of mass destruction: biological, chemical, lasers and microwave weapons.[2][3]
External links
- Revisiting Aum Shinrikyo: New Insights into the Most Extensive Non-State Biological Weapons Program to Date
- The Aftermath of Aum Shinrikyo: A New Paradigm for Terror?
- Chronology of Aum Shinrikyos CBW Activities
- Insights Into How Terrorists Develop Biological and Chemical Weapons
- Religion in the News - Spring 2001, Vol. 4, No. 1
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References
- ↑ 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/
- ↑ (5) Electro-Magnetic Pulse Weapons. http://archive.today/2021.04.05-150855/https://fas.org/irp/threat/cyber/docs/npgs/ch2.htm
- ↑ Yomiuri Shimbun, "Aum Linked with Microwave Weapons," http://archive.today/2021.04.05-151805/https://fas.org/irp/threat/cyber/docs/npgs/notes.htm
