NODE 669dc8a1RE: Net and Terrorism
talon57@well.comSat, 6 Jul 1996 01:48:28 +0800
Tim May wrote:
>Again, the Sarin attack in Tokyo had nothing to do with former
>U.S.S.R. CBW weapons. Chemical and biological agents are cheap to
>make, especially in the quanties needed to kill only a few
>thousand people, and in the non-battlefield delivery environment.
Actually Tim, the Aum Supreme truth cult was using a Russian
formula for it's production of sarin, and was spending vast amounts
of time and money trying to obtain Russian NBC expertise. They
supposedly had an estimated 30,000 followers in the former Soviet
union.
I recently finished an excellent book "The cult at the end of the
world" about all this and highly recommend it to my fellow
cypherpunks.
Brian
NODE 2b50b1c6RE: Net and Terrorism
dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)Sat, 6 Jul 1996 08:19:16 +0800
talon57@well.com writes:
>
>
> Tim May wrote:
>
> >Again, the Sarin attack in Tokyo had nothing to do with former
> >U.S.S.R. CBW weapons. Chemical and biological agents are cheap to
> >make, especially in the quanties needed to kill only a few
> >thousand people, and in the non-battlefield delivery environment.
>
> Actually Tim, the Aum Supreme truth cult was using a Russian
> formula for it's production of sarin, and was spending vast amounts
> of time and money trying to obtain Russian NBC expertise. They
> supposedly had an estimated 30,000 followers in the former Soviet
> union.
>
> I recently finished an excellent book "The cult at the end of the
> world" about all this and highly recommend it to my fellow
> cypherpunks.
>
> Brian
>
>
I used to do work for the company that distributed AUM literature in Russia.
Curiously, the same people distribute Baha'i literature. :-)
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