Michael Malone - Weebly

the face, we can kiss the whole shithouse adios
amigos." By "the whole shithouse" the commander
meant the world as we know it. By "this thing" he
meant, of course, Operation Archangel.
In its first year the secret base was able to report a
few practical tests. The facts, as Commander Brickhart
asked for them on a personal visit to the base, and as
the chief of staff, Dr. Svatopluk, gave them to him, were
these: bacterial and viral pathogens of intensified
virulence can be produced, preserved, and safely
transported to their destination. Some pathogens, for
example, are airborne, so that a man on a subway with
a nasal decongestant atomizer could (theoretically)
easily release into the crowded air, for example,
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, or Neisseria
meningitidis, or Streptococcus pyo genes, or
Diplococcus pneumoniae. All of which Viralization of
Defense came down to what Commander Brickhart
thought he might as well call "pretty damn mean
medicine." All of which, Dr. Svatopluk told him, were
"crude," "obvious," and "uninteresting," very much like
(he told his staff) the military mind. "My word above,"