The Biggest Killer in American History Lyrics

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Cover art for The Biggest Killer in American History lyrics by Bad Religion

Yes, the Edward Teller/ Nevada Lines of the song clear out the main point of the song, to understand it.

tying it to the H-bomb. You need to know Edward Teller was very imperative and infatuated when it came to the use of the Bomb, which was indeed his creation. like a power trip, in a perspective.

He was insistent on the use of the bomb on Japan. He highly supported the use of it.

and you have to look at the underlying factors... the bombs just tie the song together

The biggest killer in American history is rascim.

this is how the lines -

"business institutions, universities both are quite the circus when the killer wants his way"

-make sense-because these lines would be really random and off the subject if the killer was the bomb.

to ensure of this, see the lines

"most cannot remember minutia learned in school it's not there on the blackboard, it's what they don't tell you we have got a problem, it starts and ends right here it can be defeated but you've got to face your fear"

its widely iconic, especially back in the 50's and 60's that it was ambiguous for the first time how school children looked upon Race...

cuz by that time, the masses of adults were rascist and brought up that way, but it always was an uncertainty in school at the time. still is, less so now. Unity! almost not quite.

The fact the that Teller was a genius scientist .. is great and all... but that doesnt undermine what the impetus of desire was to be so insistent to proceed the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

which can be seen arbitrarily as rascism, through Tellers eyes, preconcieved judgments(rascism) along with intellect

Rascism is the biggest killer in American History. Not the case for the word as much as religion, and ist constituents being rascism.

Rascism caused the civil war

this song is a difficult riddle.