atomic weapons
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NEW BOOK: Neutron Cowboys
Please buy a copy of my newest poetry chapbook, “Neutron Cowboys: Poems about the Manhattan Project.” Its available here at Amazon: Neutron Cowboys From the back-of-the-book summary: The men who worked, who wracked their brains to create new atomic elements, who risked death to unleash the power of the sun, were dazzled by achievement and blinded…
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Enola Gay Tibbits
Imagine being Enola Gay waiting there that appointed day when the silver wings your young son brings drop down upon the scene with a button press, a short caress the bright, resultant light cascading atoms fusing (and the rising sun set losing). Now carbon shadows bridge the gaps where school kids once ran laps…
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Second Sun
This poem is my attempt at understanding… I I have no regrets. I did what I was ordered and I did it right. I have no problem sleeping at night. At no point could we hear any ragged breaths, we saved the east from American deaths. None of our boys would wade into the Rising…
The Numinous Cosmos 