Tom Lehrer - Who's Next - with intro
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN mentions it mostly in nuclear-weapons threads as a witty or darkly funny aside, rather than as a recommendation.
What it is
Tom Lehrer performs his satirical song Who's Next, about the spread of nuclear weapons, with a spoken introduction. It is a short musical comedy piece from the Cold War era.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2016 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends pizza · 2018-04 · on “Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire”
I love his song "Who's Next?", about nuclear war: especially how it starts and ends, haha > First we got the bomb and that was good > Cause we love peace and motherhood > Then Russia got the bomb, but that's O.K > Cause the balance of power's maintained that way! ... > ... We'll try to stay serene and calm > When Alabama gets the bomb! [this video]
Cites dbg31415 · 2016-12 · on “Why a Post-Nuclear World Would Look Nothing Like “Mad Max””
I have to imagine the only way to really get nukes dropped on you, is to have nukes aimed at someone else... or have a large standing army. Or basically be a threat in some way. It's not like someone says, "I want to kill all the humans..." they presumably just want to destroy their enemies and threats to their safety. With that in mind, these nations are probably fucked... but that's only a fraction of nations. * List of states with nuclear weapons - Wikipedia || [LINK] Russia has, generously, an 8k nuclear arsenal (but only about 2k of those are considered active). If they sent everything they had ever built at Texas, they'd still barely be able to drop one bomb per every 30 square miles..