The Stakes

Michael Peach

Technology is neutral,
But those who use it aren’t.
Such are our modern weapons
That one man, willing to die,
Could end all life on Earth.
With each “great leap” in science
The stakes grow ever higher.

Jerusalem
25 July 1997

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