Michael Malone - Weebly

snapped Dr. Svatopluk, "those missile-happy jock
brains have got bomb releases for their sphincter
muscles! TNT or toxins, it's all the same to them. Fly
low and drop a load!"
Commander Brickhart had been very impatient with
the head of the operation. He wanted something that
worked, and he wanted it now! Svatopluk tried
facetiousness: "Don't you think it might be a teensy bit
suspicious, Commander, if all of Moscow woke up one
morning with meningitis, and every Commie in
Indochina simultaneously dropped dead of TB?"
Facetiousness had no more effect on Hector Brickhart
than had an Ohio State offensive guard. He got a little
hot under the collar, he tried bribery, he tried insults of a
crude and obvious sort. Nothing would induce Dr.
Svatopluk to mass-market his germs until they were
ready.
Frankly the scientific team found the notion of viral
and bacterial saturation a primitive one. They had tried
a little salmonellosis and a little brucellosis, and they
knew they worked. It is easy, but uninspired, to foodpoison
a given population, or fever a control group.