0000000856 00000 n 0000010946 00000 n 0000012836 00000 n As President, can you change the game? 0000006632 00000 n 0000001541 00000 n Copyright 2020.Engaging U.S. voters about the urgency to reduce nuclear and other WMD threats. 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. 0000001969 00000 n In 1992, Matsumoto, who had changed his name to Shoko Asah… 0000007616 00000 n 0000000016 00000 n In recent interviews, Japanese authorities disclosed that Aum got its starter botulinum germs on the northern island of Hokkaido near the Tokachi River, a … 0000016756 00000 n 0000011926 00000 n However, they are also known for the sarin gas attack The groups goals in their attacks have either been the elimination of opposition, like authorities and lawyers, or the mass murder of as many civilians as possible. (from which botulinum toxin is derived) from the soil they collected at the basin of the Tokach River, Hokkaido To bring about an apocalyptic war, or retaliation for the defeat of 25 Aum members running for political positions. Among the chilling details unearthed in the manifesto of Norwegian domestic terrorist Anders Behring Breivik were passages advocating the use of biological weapons and especially In light of newly available information, Philipp Bleek analyzes Aum Shinrikyo's biological weapons efforts and uses the cult's failed attempts as a tool to assess the threat of bioterrorism and possible preventative measures.The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation StudiesNTI has developed interactive educational tools for anyone who wants to learn more about the threat posed by nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.This material is produced independently for NTI by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of and has not been independently verified by NTI or its directors, officers, employees, or agents. 0000016364 00000 n Nuclear weapons are on hair-trigger alert, ready to be fired at a moment’s notice. 0000016874 00000 n 0000001822 00000 n (Image of Coxiella burnetti/ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) B 22 Oct 1992 90 28 0000002546 00000 n 90 0 obj <> endobj 0000018552 00000 n %PDF-1.4 %����

0000007010 00000 n Play the new NTI game "Hair Trigger" to learn more.The 2020 NTI Nuclear Security Index finds that progress on protecting nuclear materials against theft and nuclear facilities against acts of sabotage has slowed significantly over the past two years, despite ongoing, major security gaps.COVID-Local, a project from NTI | bio and partners, has launched a new policy mapping tool to allow community and national leaders to measure phased reopening and ongoing local disease spread against the impact of specific policies in place to suppress COVID-19. 0000012457 00000 n xref Aum Shinrikyo's most famous act is the 1995 sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway. 0000003462 00000 n 0000017959 00000 n 0000003090 00000 n 0000013059 00000 n 0000018208 00000 n

Although Aum apparently dabbled with a variety of biological agents, it only seriously attempted to obtain and disseminate two, botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT), obtained from the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, and B. anthracis. <

0000016014 00000 n Aum Shinrikyo members testified that the odors were caused by their efforts to aerosolize a liquid suspension of Bacillus anthracis in an attempt to cause an inhalational anthrax epidemic. They believed this epidemic would trigger a world war and lead to Asahara’s ruling the world.
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0000007420 00000 n However, the well-financed Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo tried to spray aerosols of the toxin at least three times without success. Botulinum toxin, one of the most toxic poisons known, is derived from the spore-forming bacteria Clostridium botulinum. 0000010552 00000 n 0000003192 00000 n During the 1990s the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo unsuccessfully experimented with anthrax, botulinum toxin, cholera, Ebola, and Q fever. 0000001622 00000 n Its founder, Chizuo Matsumoto, claimed that he sought to restore "original Buddhism" but employed Christian millenarian rhetoric. trailer

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