Organized political proliferation of nuclear weapons tech

from this week in August, 1994  (I was 49)

Organized political proliferation of nuclear weapons tech

now seems tame and even civil

compared to the terrorist zeal to feed economic or dogmatic greed.

We only know what premium grade Russian plutonium was seized

by German airport security three times in the last four months.

Drug trafficking has taught us how much more gets through;

and so the long-range nightmare of physics poisoning is locally upon us.

Money swears in Congress; fear mongers fire automatic weapons.

In the street the accumulation of gold chain around the neck

is still chain around the neck.  Centuries have gone by

with war such a good industry the industrious couldn’t resist.

We were number one with a bullet.

Our best heads were collected into national labs and were shaped into bullets.

You might think they might think of something else something better

but they rarely did so and only accidentally.