Cold War Suite from How It Happens (The Voice of I.F. Stone), Perfect Weapon

We Americans, we Americans have lived in a country
That's been very successful technologically
And we instinctively think, we instinctively think
That every problem must have a technological solution
The atom bomb was supposed to be a perfect weapon
The atom bomb gave us nuclear superiority for quite a while
And please notice that in that period of nuclear superiority
It was the first time America had ever
Been kicked around and lost a war
To, to some little two-by-five country across the Pacific
And the Russians today in Afghanistan
With all their nuclear superiority
What good does it do them?
The weapon, the wonder-working weapon
The weapon, the wonder-working weapon has to work
We're starving education
And the recruits are getting dumber
And the weapons are getting more and more complicated
How the hell you gonna run 'em?