Eisenhowers Warning
Eisenhower’s Warning
The brightest grad students from M.I.T.
atomic physicists with soaring ambition
were hired by the armament industry
to design bombs with doomsday precision
China’s top students with noble ambitions
physicists under secret instruction
were assigned by senior army technicians
to design bombs of mega-mass destruction
Brilliant young physicists from Moscow U.
were ordered to a munitions camp
to help make the Soviet Union anew
by building super H-bombs with Putin’s stamp
So, remember before our mutual annihilation:
To get a good job—get a good education!
Beware of the military industrial complex —Dwight David Eisenhower
Written 3/1/22
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