It's funny, the whole song is really a play on modern life and technology...
'I got CC-TV, pornography, CNBC
I got the nightly news to get to know the enemy'
And the phrase 'they're in the desert to dismantle an atomic bomb' always gets me. I'm not sure why, maybe it's just the way the lyric rolls off Bono's tongue, or the obscurity of the scene.
But you'd think that the lyric that generated the name of the album wouldn't be a bonus track? After all, All That You Can't Leave Behind was in Walk On. What gives?