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Oppenheimer

As a former educator and writer on international relations, and especially on nuclear issues, my students often tried to inveigle from me my own position on the worst of all weapons. I never succumbed.

 

Oppenheimer

 

Listen:

the distant siren

entices, fades;

Horizons clatter in fusillades,

 

cracking barrages warn the Furies

to grasp the running

menace

of desir...

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