When a team of government operatives is sent to investigate the site of Dr. Hellstrom's secret project 40, they find specially bred scientists with huge heads and stunted legs who develop weapons that hum with deadly insect venom...chemically neutered workers capable of poisoning the world...hidden tunnels immune to atomic fission...hormones for ecstatic sensual pleasures...and the vats--where everyone finally ends to nourish future generations of Hellstrom's horrifying hive...