Gershon Wolf Poet Couplet

A Nuclear Future

  
   The specter of nuclear war haunts the world again
      not long after we all thought it might end

   As agreements of Reagan and Gorbachev are trashed
      the angst of Krushchev and Kennedy streams past…

   Today, Iran hungers for the bomb, terrifying everyone
      in her recent ‘Twelve-Day-War,’ a nuclear future may have won   

   Putin speaks casually of using ‘whatever force is necessary’
      to render Ukraine a useful ex-enemy… 

   America’s arsenal’s buried deep beneath the ground ~
      in the M-E, ballistic missiles and drones routinely downed

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Oliver Mckeithan July 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM Good one Gershon. Pandoras box was opened and cant be shut again. Those Mullahs are nasty Bit India and Pakistan each have the bomb and hate each other as well

Terry Flood June 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM Iran must never get the nuclear bomb. It is a nation ruled by nutters who would use it on a whim. Putin, however, would be crazy to use nukes ANYWHERE! The international retaliation would wipe the Crumbling… I mean Kremlin, off the face of the earth… I hope.

Kim Rodrigues June 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM Always evaluating the threat.

Joseph P. DiMino June 27, 2025 at 2:11 AM Putin will not use bomb...he is not that stupid I believe. Hopefully.

Andrea Dietrich June 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM Scary times. In many other ways as well.