| For those skimming, Aum Shinrikyo is the cult responsible for the Tokyo subway sarin attack. What's often overlooked is that the cult synthesized the sarin gas themselves in a self-made sophisticated chemical weapons lab: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack#Chem... When their headquarters were raided, police found enough weaponry to fight a small war: >Over the next week, the full scale of Aum's activities was revealed for the first time. At the cult's headquarters in Kamikuishiki on the foot of Mount Fuji, police found explosives, chemical weapons, and a Russian Mil Mi-17 military helicopter. While the finding of biological warfare agents such as anthrax and Ebola cultures was reported, those claims now appear to have been widely exaggerated.[52] There were stockpiles of chemicals that could be used for producing enough sarin to kill four million people.[53] They bought a sheep farm in Australia to mine uranium in order to enrich it and build nuclear weapons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjawarn_Station#Aum_Shinriky... Had they not been caught, I have little doubt they'd have eventually succeeded. |