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goobster  ·  3320 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: North Korea makes more sense when you know its roots in Japanese fascism

Well, no.

At least not any more. Probably.

They did have a huge property out in Western Australia. Seismometers around the world recorded a large seismic event in this tectonically stable area back in May 1993. Some say the signature was like a nuclear blast.

But nobody thought to go check it out. For years.

When someone finally went out there, long after Aum Shinrikyo had abandoned the sheep station, they found a technical lab, and many sheep who had died from exposure to several things. Including radiation and sarin.

Bill Bryson kinda created the modern mythology of the Aum-Nuke in his book, "In a Sunburned Country", but ... the facts are all there. They are all weird. And you can extrapolate that Aum possibly had a successful nuclear test on that site, long before their sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.

So... yeah. Do with that what you will...