From: talon57@well.com
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 01:48:28 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: RE: Net and Terrorism
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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