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Biological weapons are toxins or infectious agents used with the intent to kill, harm, or incapacitate enemies. In the novel, Ibaraki learns that his lab has been making bioweapons and testing them on human subjects as part of the Japanese war effort in World War II.
Biological Weapons Quotes in After Darkness
The After Darkness quotes below are all either spoken by Biological Weapons or refer to Biological Weapons. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 14: Tokyo, 1936
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“The true purpose of the facility is concealed from the local community through the disguise of a lumber mill. We’ve even started calling our test subjects maruta. It started as a joke, but ‘logs’ has turned out to be a convenient euphemism, so we have persisted with the term.”
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“A great doctor, just like a great military commander, knows that sometimes a few lives have to be sacrificed to save thousands of others. When this war is over, great doctors will be remembered.”
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