Well, they dropped the bomb in '45 to end the World War,
No one had ever seen such a terrible sight before,
The world looked on with eyes wide to see where it might lead,
The politics of power passed around the seed,
It was a time to remember we never can forget,
They're playing Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette.

They rose up like the saviours of our modern human race,
With radiation haloes hung above their face,
With the keys to the sure cure treatment for our ills,
A hot shot of cobalt and a pocket full of pills,
Speaking always of the enemy who lurked across the seas,
While they crept in amongst us like a carrier disease.

And deep down inside the bunkers of the concrete and the lead,
Einstein's disciples working steadily ahead,
Making heavy-metal power plants to fire the city lights,
All you hear in the underground is the humming through the night,
The walls of tight security circle all around,
Where they spill out their poison and they bury it in the ground.

And holed up in the harbours, hidden secretly away,
Warheads and a submarines they await to make their play,
While the military masterminds improving their design,
The soldiers get all doped up and they stumble through the lines,
And the spills into the rivers get carried by the tide,
Well, they call this security, I call it suicide.

Our statesmen and our leaders with their politicians pay,
Quick to heed the hand that feeds, they're careful what they say,
The call out experts to assure us, to wave the magic wand,
This is the power of the future, the future marches on,
Then they call in all their favours, all their political gains,
While the spills fill the rivers and they settle in the plains.

I know the minds behind them are riddled full of holes,
Not to be trusted with their hands at the controls,
Their eyesight it is twisted by the glory of their careers,
The heaped praise of flattery is music to them ears,
To listen to them talk about how it hasn't happened yet,
It's like playing Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian Roulette,
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian Roulette,
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian Roulette.