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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Apocalyptic prophets are figures of fun because they're always wrong. Armageddon fails to arrive when they say it will. In Shoko Asahara's case, however, the prophet apparently made plans to ensure that his predictions would come true. They almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOKO ASAHARA: ENGINEER OF DOOM | 6/12/1995 | See Source »

Since Japanese police arrested the guru of the Aum Shinrikyo cult on May 16, frightening facts have emerged indicating that Asahara had the money, the means and the intention to wreak his version of Armageddon on Japan. The March 20 nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, which killed 12 people and sickened 5,500, and the thwarted attempt to spread deadly hydrogen cyanide gas in the Shinjuku station on May 5 were intended as preludes to worse disasters, police sources are suggesting in leaks to the Japanese press. The big show was apparently set for November, when plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOKO ASAHARA: ENGINEER OF DOOM | 6/12/1995 | See Source »

West goes even further than Lerner's hollow warnings of Jewish destruction. He threatens a defensive war against an oncoming American holocaust facing Blacks. "If we don't come up with a multiracial, progressive strategy, then we are simply headed toward Armageddon," he says. "I mean race war...That's quite imaginable in this society...

Author: By David S. Abrams, | Title: Socialism Won't Bridge Gap | 4/22/1995 | See Source »

...conflict about the plane's cost shouldn't obscure one question: What would these new planes brandish in battle? With atomic Armageddon receding, the ideal new-world-order weapon should be a precision-guided, nonnuclear bomb, similar to those used with devastating effect in the Gulf War. One such ``smart'' bomb can do the work of 100 ``dumb'' bombs, puts fewer pilots at risk and dramatically reduces the tonnage of fuel and weapons that has to be shipped to a war zone. Indeed, the Pentagon was working on the top-secret Tri-Service Standoff Attack Missile (dubbed Tee-Sam), which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A FLYING BOONDOGGLE | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

National Basketball Association camps opened, and the start of the season is not under direct threat, yet to hear N.B.A. Players Association executive director Charles Grantham tell it, Armageddon is just a free throw away. Says Grantham: "We both ((owners and players)) have atomic bombs. Before we avoided using them by a pact of mutually assured destruction. But now there's a threat that we both might throw unless we negotiate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Confederacy of Fools | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

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