1. The true aims of "Scoop" were to find new life forms that
might benefit the Fort Detrick program. In essence, it was a study to
discover new biological weapons of war. (page 44)
From the very beginning we see the book has an anti-military message.
The use of biological and chemical weapons is now felt by most people
to be morally inexcusable. Yet the U.S. government is attempting to develop
those very weapons through the discovery of alien bacteria. This attempt
results in the tragedy at Piedmont and the deaths of many citizens.
2. When Leavitt gave him the file, Hall had read the note and whistled.
Don't you believe it, Leavitt said. Just a scare? Scare, hell, Leavitt
said. If the wrong man reads this file, he just disappears. (page
83) The secrecy of the Wildfire Project demonstrates the power of the
military and the Federal government. The possibility of someone disappearing
because they read the wrong file convokes images of the Gestapo, or the
Night and Fog decrees of the Third Reich. Crichton portrays a military
that does not have to be accountable to the American people because the...........
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