“There are therefore two great problems which the Party is
concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another
human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million
people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand. In so far as
scientific research still continues, this is its subject matter…
In the vast laboratories of the Ministry of Peace, and in
the experimental stations hidden in the Brazilian forests, or in the Australian
desert, or on lost islands of the Antarctic, the teams of experts are
indefatigably at work. Some are concerned simply with planning the logistics of
future wars; others devise larger and larger rocket bombs, more and more
powerful explosives, and more and more impenetrable armour-plating; others
search for new and deadlier gases, or for soluble poisons capable of being
produced in such quantities as to destroy the vegetation of whole continents,
or for breeds of disease germs immunized against all possible antibodies.”
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