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Called Sakigake, it is an embellishment of the Aum Supreme Truth cult, the group responsible for the nerve-gas attacks on the Tokyo subway in 1995.
Rebel Ascendant Sam Sacks 2011
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The easiest way for us to avoid exposure to these organophosphate pesticides (which came out of nerve-gas warfare in the 1930's), is to stop eating the top 12 most toxic fruits and vegetables.
Dr. Walter Crinnion: Organic Food: Dear Mr. President, Go Organic! 2010
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It goes waaay beyond protection ... waaay beyong pepper sprays and nerve-gas (I have these things ... i hope i never need to use them, especially on my boo)
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Dick Cheney was talking about mushroom clouds and President Bush was talking about weapons of mass destruction, and when Colin Powell talked about mobile nerve-gas units, they almost had me convinced.
I’m Still Standing SHOSHANA JOHNSON 2010
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But he believed the charges because the person making the group's case was a well-known former Japanese jurist who presided over the trial of Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo's deadly nerve-gas attack on a Tokyo subway in 1995.
Fujitsu's Boardroom Drama Features Touch of Film Noir Daisuke Wakabayashi 2010
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After World War II, the government encouraged the conversion of the munitions industry to fertilizer -- ammonium nitrate being the main ingredient of both bombs and chemical fertilizer -- and the conversion of nerve-gas research to pesticides.
Farmer in Chief 2009
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Drafted from his usual show-business beat in Los Angeles, Mr. Ayres bought a $1 million life-insurance policy, kept a bottle of Valium for easy suicide in case of nerve-gas attack and — writing for The Times of London — lasted a total of nine days embedded with a Marine artillery unit nicknamed “The Long-Distance Death Dealers.”
The Western Front 2009
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After three separate attacks in the first three days of the war, the Israeli casualty list consisted of several cars and houses and a large number of people suffering from mostly minor injuries -- or the effects of having mistakenly injected themselves with the atropine antidote for nerve-gas poisoning.
Bombs Over Baghdad 2008
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In 1994 Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor agency to the KGB, thwarted an attempt by Lt.Gen. Anatoly Kuntsevich, former deputy head of the Russian chemical-weapons forces, to sell five tons of nerve-gas components to agents of the Syrian government.
Yeltsin's War Games 2008
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Nachman Klieman, spokesman for Israel's airline, El Al, on reports that an El Al cargo plane that crashed in Amsterdam six years ago was carrying a chemical that can be used in the manufacture of the deadly nerve-gas sarin "" I should like to repeat, there is no program of any kind. ''
Perspectives 2008
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