An edition of The cult at the end of the world (1996)

The cult at the end of the world

the terrifying story of the Aum doomsday cult, from the subways of Tokyo to the nuclear arsenals of Russia

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An edition of The cult at the end of the world (1996)

The cult at the end of the world

the terrifying story of the Aum doomsday cult, from the subways of Tokyo to the nuclear arsenals of Russia

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At the height of morning rush hour on March 20th, 1995, the deadly nerve gas sarin poured into the Tokyo subway system, killing 12 people and injuring 6,000 more. This horrifying attack on the public was carried out by the Aum Supreme Truth cult, a high-tech billion-dollar empire of New Age zealots led by Shoko Asahara, a charismatic charlatan. The story of Aum reads like science fiction or horror, but it is shockingly true.

The cult recruited some of Japan's brightest students and scientists, indoctrinated them with a paranoid combination of Eastern beliefs and the Judeo-Christian idea of Armageddon, and manipulated them with designer drugs and mind control. Asahara sent cult members to Russia in the confusion following the fall of the Soviet Union in order to gain new converts among the Russian scientific community and to acquire nuclear weapons for the cult. Others were dispatched to Zaire to collect the deadly Ebola virus from the heart of the hot zone.

All these activities had one purpose: to realize Asahara's vision of the end of the world. Asahara and many of his followers are now in jail, the cult disbanded, but questions remain: Could Asahara have brought the world to an end, and could another Aum succeed where he failed? In this penetrating expose, David Kaplan and Andrew Marshall reveal the frightening truth about just how close Aum - and the world - came to the brink of the Apocalypse.

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Crown Publishers
Language
English
Pages
310

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The cult at the end of the world: the incredible story of Aum
1997, Arrow
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The cult at the end of the world: the incredible story of Aum
1996, Hutchinson
in English
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The cult at the end of the world: the incredible story of Aum
1996, Arrow
in English
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Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
364.1/523/0952
Library of Congress
BP605.O88, BP605.O88 K37 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
310p., [8]p. of plates :
Number of pages
310

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Open Library
OL22115380M
ISBN 10
0517705435
LCCN
96168693
OCLC/WorldCat
34845002
Library Thing
1286067
Goodreads
596027

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