But though the biological sciences advance day by day and could put up a spirited defense, they can do so only if efforts are begun now on a scale severalordersofmagnitude beyond what is scheduled.
The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a scientific technique in molecular biology to amplify a single or a few copies of a piece of DNA across severalordersofmagnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence.
As the initial shock wears off it will be obvious that this was a demonstration shot intended to extract political concessions and surrender, a call to fix our attention on the prospect of a nuclear detonation or a chemical or biological attack, both of which would exceed what happened yesterday by severalordersofmagnitude.