On the morning of March 20, 1995, commuters aboard five Tokyo subway trains noticed strange liquid leaking from punctured plastic bags wrapped in newspaper. Within minutes, clouds of sarin nerve agent engulfed passengers in blinding terror.
Behind this atrocity stood Aum Shinrikyo, a radical apocalyptic cult led by Shoko Asahara, who envisioned a global nuclear armageddon from which only his followers would emerge to rule the post-apocalyptic world.
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