The A1 Verse: Haiku for Zaporizhzhia
By Thomas Gaulkin | August 16, 2022
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons, modified)
Every so often, a story (or teaser) published on the front page of the New York Times is so well written, meaningful, and appropriate to the Bulletin’s concerns that small snippets of it, properly chosen and arranged, produce something more than journalism, something that approaches … poetry. That blessed coincidence occurred April 18, 2022.
We suspect it’ll occur again.
Risks at Ukraine Nuclear Plant
(from the original by Andrew E. Kramer and Andrew Higgins)
as fighting rages
’round the Russian-occupied,
a decisive phase
Together, we make the world safer.
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Keywords: Russia, Russia-Ukraine, The A1 Verse, Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia, haiku, poetry, war
Topics: Nuclear Risk, Special Topics
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Thomas Gaulkin is multimedia editor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Prior to joining the Bulletin in 2018, he spent the... Read More
