Brandon Russell
Brandon Clint Russell is a Bahamian American Neo-Nazi leader and the founder of the Atomwaffen Division. Creation of Atomwaffen Russell, who went by the handle "Odin", first appeared on the Iron March on March 22, 2014, at age 18. Iron March was a far-right neo-fascist and neo-Nazi web forum. The site opened in 2011 and attracted Neo-fascist and Neo-Nazi members, including militants from organized far-right groups and members who would later go on to commit acts of terror. Russell would create contacts with American and international neo-Nazis and in an October 2015 post on Iron March, he announced the formation of Atomwaffen Division that had been three years in the making. He stated that Atomwaffen was for very fanatical, ideological people who do military training, absolutely "no keyboard warriors". Dozens responded to the thread, which stated they had 40 members across the U.S., mostly in Florida. In addition to creating the organization in the United States, he would visit Atomwaffen's ideological comrades, National Action, in the United Kingdom. Russell also went to meet with the leaderships of Golden Dawn, Nordic Resistance Movement, Russian Imperial Movement and CasaPound in a neo-Nazi event in Russian Federation in 2015. Involvement in terror plots