Aum Shinrikyo was the brainchild of Chizuo Matsumoto, a sight-impaired schoolyard bully whose childhood dreams were to attend Tokyo University and become the prime minister. 0000008932 00000 n 0000011303 00000 n 0000127533 00000 n AUM SHINRI KYO (SUPREME TRUTH) Sponsored link. Their name was a combination of Aum which is a sacred Hindu syllable, and Shinri Kyo which means "supreme truth". The distinction between agent and weapon is less important in the context of state-level WMD programs since countries rarely invest in the production of a CBRN harm agent without simul- 0000002080 00000 n 0000007010 00000 n 90 28 0000002102 00000 n
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trailer Shinrikyo Aum is a syncretic belief system that draws upon Asahara's idiosyncratic interpretations of elements of early Indian Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism, as well as Hinduism, taking Shiva as the main image of worship and incorporating millennialist ideas from Christianity, Yoga, and the writings of Nostradamus. Thirteen people were killed, and thousands were injured. Founded by Shoko Asahara in the early 1990s, Aum Shinrikyo was a doomsday cult based in Japan. In another incident, Niimi attacked Hiroyuki Nagaoka, 57, the head of the "Association of the Victims of Aum Shinrikyo" with VX gas in January, 1995. Last updated June 19, 2012 0000012341 00000 n 0000001405 00000 n 0000007616 00000 n Ataxia: The Chemical and Biological Terrorism Threat and the US Response 73 Kiyohide Hayakawa (早川 紀代秀, はやかわ きよひで, July 14, 1949 - July 6, 2018) was one of the members of the Japanese doomsday-cult group Aum Shinrikyo.Hayakawa was born in Hyōgo Prefecture in 1949. 0000001822 00000 n 0000006882 00000 n 0000003462 00000 n 0000010552 00000 n 0000004248 00000 n The Aum Shinrikyo and the Japanese Red Army. 0000013059 00000 n 0000013265 00000 n
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On the morning of March 20, 1995, packages were placed on five different trains in the Tokyo subway system.
Aum Shinrikyo conducted a deadly nerve gas attack on a Tokyo subway in 1995. With unprecedented access to former Aum members, Lifton has produced a pathbreaking study of the inner life of a modern millennial cult. 0000006632 00000 n Aum Shinrikyo.
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Even early on, Asahara aspired to be a leader, running for president in elementary, junior high and senior high school. Naoki Yamamoto's first inspirations for Believers came after the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995.
Two hundred Aum Shinrikyo members were convicted following the attacks. 0000042156 00000 n 0000005083 00000 n trailer << /Size 306 /Info 256 0 R /Encrypt 267 0 R /Root 266 0 R /Prev 399768 /ID[ 0000086159 00000 n xref 0000088592 00000 n 0000075864 00000 n His grand plans went. %PDF-1.3 %����
0000007420 00000 n In the Second Edition of the 2011 CNAS report Aum Shinrikyo: Insights Into How Terrorists Develop Biological and Chemical Weapons, Richard Danzig, Marc Sageman, Terrance Leighton, Lloyd Hough, Hidemi Yuki, Rui Kotani and Zachary M. Hosford provide new analysis of Aum Shinrikyo’s chemical and biological weapons development, which pre-dated their 1995 sarin gas attack on the …
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0000101459 00000 n by the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo cult in 1995) to the extremely sophisticated (the M34 cluster bomb, a U.S. Army munition designed to cover a broad area with sarin). 0000008148 00000 n Now Robert Jay Lifton offers a vivid and disturbing case in point in this chilling exploration of Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese cult that released sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subways. 0000009180 00000 n
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0000000016 00000 n 0000016756 00000 n 0000010233 00000 n < He fortunately survived but was in a coma for several weeks per a Staff conversation with his son. Aum Shinrikyo's next major act of violence would serve as a wake-up call to the world regarding the prospects of weapons of mass destruction and terrorism. 0000005970 00000 n Aum Shinrikyo’s attacks have also provided governments with …
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