In regards to Piedmont, the President elects to delay the nuking 72 hours and set up a 150-mile cordon around the town instead. In the latter case, it was even decided that even the worst outbreak would kill less people in the Soviet Union than a full nuclear exchange. However, despite allowing Wildfire to possess an automatic nuclear self-destruct (and dragging their heels all the way), the President retains control of this directive, and is forced to balance the apparent sure-fire cure to an outbreak against the effects it would have in global politics i.e., letting the Soviets know why they appeared to break a nuclear test ban in private at best, to triggering a global nuclear conflict if the outbreak occurred in the Soviet Union. One of the Wildfire protocols is Directive 7-12, which employs a nuclear strike on the center of an outbreak to (theoretically) vaporize and sterilize the area if there are no survivors and/or the contagion proves to be quite threatening. The US politicians have to content with this trope prior to the climax, as well.A Nuclear Error: Forms the climax of the novel.
Wilson with the assistance of Crichton's estate. The novel has been adapted into movie form twice the 1971 film starred Arthur Hill, James Olson, Kate Reid, and David Wayne and followed the book closely, while the 2008 miniseries is a re-imagining of the original story.Ī sequel, appropriately entitled The Andromeda Evolution, was published in 2019, written by Daniel H. A lot of the book and the 1971 movie spend considerable time showing the process the research team has to go through to be decontaminated just to be able to work on the problem. Most of the action takes place in an underground research installation called "Wildfire", located in a remote part of Nevada. The team races to find the common link between the two survivors before the rapidly mutating organism can find a way out of containment and cause a deadly epidemic. The Andromeda Strain is a 1969 sci-fi thriller novel by Michael Crichton, about a team of scientists who investigate a deadly organism of extraterrestrial origin that causes rapid, fatal blood clotting.Īs the novel opens, the microorganism has killed an entire town save for two individuals, an old man and a crying infant.
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