Antinuclear

It has been reported that Asahara’s obsession with nuclear weapons formed the foundation for all of his actions related to these weapons. He published several ‘symposia’ during his time as leader in which he made statements about surviving a nuclear holocaust….. Asahara began viewing Japanese and Western society as the enemy and advocated pursuing violent means to bring about Armageddon….

Aum targeted the Kurchatov Institute, for expertise and technology because it reportedly possessed hundreds of kilograms of weapons-usable uranium. According to U.S. congressional investigators, the cult recruited at least two Russian nuclear scientists and approached Russian science officials to obtain laser and nuclear technologies. Asahara held talks with Nikolai Basov, a Nobel Prize winner for physics. Aum also approached the Russian Nuclear Energy Minister, but the Minister declined to meet with Aum’s Moscow branch.

Aum In Australia Aum also launched a scheme of exploring the uranium mines in Australia. Asahara might have believed that Australia would be unaffected by Armageddon and that is the sole reason he wanted to establish a permanent facility there.

Aum bought a sheep farm at Banjawarn in 1993 as a place to test chemical weapons and mine uranium. Asahara also brought 25 people to Australia in 1993 to live at Banjawarn Station with excess luggage that contained equipment for mining uranium. Two sect members were fined for carrying dangerous goods on an airplane, but were released. They bought mineral exploration licenses to ensure that no one else could enter the property to prospect for minerals.

They also formed two Aum companies – Mahaposya Australia Pvt Ltd and Clarity Investments Pty Ltd – as front businesses to cover up their true activities and with the passage of time these companies became the actual holders of the mineral licenses.

The cult reportedly found little uranium and after that Aum met with an Australian geologist on September 1993 and discussed the possibility of exporting uranium ore from Australia to Japan via ship…..   http://www.eurasiareview.com/02022012-aum-shinrikyo-in-pursuit-of-nuclear-weapons-analysis/