... dominates the country. Aum offered them monetary as well as creative satisfaction, allowing them to test their knowledge through experimentation. (Reader, 2000) Asahara wanted to use these scientists to possibly engineer chemical and biological weapons. Aum scientists would proceed to produce Sarin gas in Aum community centers, and ultimately use it in the subway attack. (Lifton, 1999) Factual information and civilian accounts ... so stinted as to assume five trains in Tokyo for the entire world? The only explanation that seems to make sense is that Asahara wanted to spread a state of p...

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