Songs with a theme of nuclear war have been a feature of popular culture since the early years of the Cold War.
Song name Artists and albums Year 4 Minute Warning Radiohead 2007 137 Brand New 2017 1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be) Jimi Hendrix 1968 1999 Prince 1982 2 Minutes to Midnight Iron Maiden 1984 540,000 Degrees Fahrenheit Fear Factory 2005 30000 Megatons Pond 2016 99 Luftballons Nena 1983 A Blue Wave Cleaners From Venus 1981 Adrian Eurythmics 1985 A Flash in the Night Secret Service 1982 After the Fall Klaus Nomi 1982 After the Flood Van Der Graaf Generator 1970 After the Holocaust Nuclear Assault 1986 After the War Asia 1985 Aftermath Armored Saint 1985 Aftershock Anthrax 1985 All Fall Down B-Movie 1991 Always the Sun The Stranglers 1986 America Kurtis Blow 1986 American Soviets CCCP 1990 Poem for a Nuclear Romance Anne Clark 1983 Apocalypso Mental as Anything 1986 Apocalypso The Lords of the New Church 1982 April 2031 Warrant 1992 Arise Sepultura 1991 Armageddon Days (Are Here Again) The The 1989 As the End Draws Near Manufacture Feat. Sarah McLachlan 1988 As the World Burns Bolt Thrower 1992 As the World Caves In Matt Maltese 2017 Atom and Evil Heaven and Hell 2009 Atom Bomb Fluke 1996 Atom Bomb Glenn Barber 1955 Atom Bomb Baby The Five Stars 1957 Atom Drum Bop The Three Johns 1986 Atom Tan The Clash 1982 Atomic Blondie 1980 Atomic Dog George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars 1982 Atomic Playboys Steve Stevens 1989 Back to Zero The Rolling Stones 1986 Beat Street Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five 1984 Beneath the Remains Sepultura 1989 Between the Wheels Rush 1984 Beyond the Black Metal Church 1984 Bikini Red The Screaming Blue Messiahs 1987 Billy's Line Red Box 1986 Birthright Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe 1989 Black Celebration Depeche Mode 1986 Black Planet The Sisters of Mercy 1985 Blackened Metallica 1988 Blossom and Blood Midnight Oil 1985 Blow the House Down Siouxsie and the Banshees 1984 Blowin' Sky High Berlin 1988 Bombers David Bowie 1971 Another Bomb Gang Green 1987 The Bomb Song Darwin Deez 2010 Bombe the Russians Fear 1985 Boom! System of a Down, on the album Steal This Album! 2002 Boom Box Vitabeats 1985 Breathing Kate Bush 1980 Brighter Than A Thousand Suns Iron Maiden 2006 Bring Back the Bomb Gwar 2004 Brush the Dust from That Old Bible Bradley Kincaid 1950 Burning Heart Survivor 1985 Can't Stop Running Space Monkey 2002 The Catalyst Linkin Park 2010 Channel-Z The B-52's 1989 Chemical Bomb Aquabats 1999 Chemical Warfare Slayer 1983 Children Of The Grave Black Sabbath 1971 Christmas at Ground Zero "Weird Al" Yankovic 1986 Claude Rains The Front Lawn 1989 Clean, Clean Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club / The Buggles 1979 Cloudburst at Shingle St. Thomas Dolby 1982 Come Away Melinda Bobbie Gentry 1968 Countdown to Extinction Megadeth 1992 Countdown to Zero Asia 1985 Crawl Out Through the Fallout Sheldon Allman 1960 Cries of Help Discharge 1982 Cruise David Gilmour 1984 Cruise Missiles Fischer-Z 1981 Cuando Seas Grande Miguel Mateos 1993 Curfew The Stranglers 1978 Current Events Joe King Carrasco and the Crowns 1998 Dancing With Tears in My Eyes Ultravox 1984 Dangerous Moments Martin Briley 1985 Dawn Patrol Megadeth 1990 The Day After The Men They Couldn't Hang 1985 The Dead Next Door Billy Idol 1983 De Bom Doe Maar 1983 De Bom Valt Nooit Herman van Veen 1984 Def.Con.One Pop Will Eat Itself 1992 Destruction Preventer Sonata Arctica 1999 Dig a Hole in the Ground Fred Small 2011 Distant Early Warning Rush 1984 Domino Genesis 1986 Don't Crash Front 242 1987 Do the Evolution Pearl Jam 1998 Do You Believe in the Westworld? Theatre of Hate 1982 Down from the Sky Trivium 2008 Downer Nirvana 1988 Dream Home in New Zealand The Beat 1981 Dream Told Minutemen 1983 Earth Crusher Mr. Lif 2002 Eighth Day Hazel O'Connor 1980 Einstein A Go Go Landscape 1981 Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman) Counting Crows 1994 Electric Funeral Black Sabbath 1970 End of the World Gary Moore 1981 The End Discharge 1981 Enola Gay OMD 1980 Epitaph King Crimson 1969 Euroshima John Waite 1984 Eve of Destruction Barry McGuire 1965 Everybody Have Fun Tonight Wang Chung 1986 Everybody Wants to Rule the World Tears for Fears 1985 Everyday Is Like Sunday Morrissey 1988 Fabulous Disaster Exodus 1989 Fact And Fiction Twelfth Night 1982 Fallout Data 1980 Famous Last Words Tears for Fears 1989 Fight Fire with Fire Metallica 1984 The Final Bloodbath Discharge 1982 Final Day Young Marble Giants 1980 Fire in the Sky Saxon 1981 Fireside Favourite Fad Gadget 1980 Firestorm Leslie Fish 1989 Five Years David Bowie 1972 Flame of the West Big Country 1984 Flyingdale Flyer Jethro Tull 1980 Forever Young Alphaville 1984 Four Minute Warning Mark Owen 2003 Four Minutes Culture Shock 1989 Four Minutes Roger Waters 1987 Folded Flags Roger Waters 1986 French Letters Herbs 1987 The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades Timbuk3 1986 Games Without Frontiers Peter Gabriel 1980 Glad It's All Over Captain Sensible 1994 Grandpa Atomic New Bomb Turks 1994 The Great Atomic Power The Louvin Brothers 1962 Ground B Sound Death Piggy 1999 Ground Zero Brooklyn Carnivore 1987 The Gunner's Dream- Paranoid Eyes Pink Floyd 1983 Guns in the Sky INXS 1987 Hallowed Ground Violent Femmes 1984 Hammer to Fall Queen 1984 Happy Birthday "Weird Al" Yankovic 1983 Harrisburg Midnight Oil 1985 Heat Leslie Spit Treeo 1990 Heatwave Fay Ray 1982 A Hell On Earth Discharge 1982 He Looks Like Spencer Tracy Now Deacon Blue 1987 Help Save the Youth of America Billy Bragg 1986 Hercules Midnight Oil 1992 Here Comes President Kill Again XTC 1989 Heresy Rush 1991 Hiroshima Gary Moore 1983 Hiroshima Sandra (originally by Wishful Thinking) 1990 Hiroshima Utopia 1977 Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette Jim Page 1976 Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette Moving Hearts 1981 Hiroshima, Mon Amour Ultravox 1977 House at Pooneil Corners Jefferson Airplane 1968 Human Error Subhumans 1981 I.C.B.M. Amebix 1987 I Come and Stand at Every Door The Byrds 1966 I Don't Wanna Die 4 Skins 1982 I Found That Essence Rare Gang of Four 1979 Ignorance Sacred Reich 1987 I Melt with You Modern English 1982 In the Hole Armored Saint 1985 Invasion Skrewdriver 1984 I Remember the Sun XTC 1984 Is There Something I Should Know? Duran Duran 1981 It's a Mistake Men At Work 1983 I've Known No War The Who 1982 I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me Nik Kershaw 1984 Janitor Suburban Lawns 1980 Just Another Day Oingo Boingo 1985 Jesus Hits Like the Atomic Bomb Lowell Blanchard and the Vally Trio 1998 Juggernaut Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush 1982 Kill for Peace The Fugs 1966 Kill the Poor Dead Kennedys 1978 Killer of Giants Ozzy Osbourne 1986 Kinky Sex Makes the World Go Round Dead Kennedys 1982 King of the World Steely Dan 1973 La Java des bombes atomiques Boris Vian 1955 La Paix sur terre Jean Ferrat 1991 Land of Confusion Genesis 1986 Last Domino Genesis 1986 Last in the House of Flames UK Decay 1981 Lawyers in Love Jackson Browne 1983 Leave in Silence Depeche Mode 1982 Leningrad Billy Joel 1989 Let Me Die In My Footsteps Bob Dylan 1963 Let's All Make A Bomb Heaven 17 1981 Let's Have A War Fear 1982 Let's Talk About it Dweezil Zappa 1986 Life During Wartime Talking Heads 1979 Listen Tears For Fears 1985 Live Fast, Die Young Circle Jerks 1980 Living Through Another Cuba XTC 1980 Lock and Key Rush 1987 London Calling The Clash 1979 Love Missile F1-11 Sigue Sigue Sputnik 1986 Lovers in a Dangerous Time Bruce Cockburn 1984 M.A.D. Hadouken!, lyrics and title refer to nuclear war; the whole album's and lyrics refer to atomic war 2009 Man at C&A The Specials 1980 Manhattan Project Rush 1985 Maralinga Urban Guerrillas 1983 Massive Retaliation Sigue Sigue Sputnik 1986 Mediate INXS 1987 Merry Minuet Kingston Trio 1959 Missiles The Sound 1980 Morning Dew Bonnie Dobson; also recorded by Jeff Beck, Blackfoot, Einstürzende Neubauten, Tim Rose, and The Grateful Dead 1962 Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D.) Gillan 1986 Nagasaki Nightmare Crass 1981 New Frontier Donald Fagen 1982 No Nuclear War Peter Tosh 1987 North Korea Polka "Weird Al" Yankovic 2017 North Winds Blowing The Stranglers 1985 Nuclear Mike Oldfield 2014 Nuclear Attack Gary Moore 1981 Nuclear Attack Sabaton 2006 Nuclear Cop Redgum 1980 Nuclear Sunrise Hand of Fire 2017 Nuclear War The Sun Ra Arkestra 1982 Nuclear War New Politics 2010 Nuclear War Yo La Tengo 2001 Oblivion Dirty Rotten Imbeciles 1987 Old Man Atom Sons of the Pioneers 1950 On the Beach The Comsat Angels 1980 One of the Living Tina Turner, on the Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1985 Paranoid Chant Minutemen 1980 Party at Ground Zero Fishbone 1985 Pink World Planet P Project 1984 Planet Earth Duran Duran 1981 Political Science Randy Newman 1972 Pride of Man Hamilton Camp 1964 Víctor Manuel 1984 Protect and Survive Runrig 1987 Put Down That Weapon Midnight Oil 1987 Quite Unusual Front 242 1987 Radiation Sickness Nuclear Assault 1986 Radioactive Toy Porcupine Tree 1992 Red Rain Peter Gabriel 1986 Red Shadows T.S.O.L. 1984 Red Skies The Fixx 1982 Red Skies over Paradise Fischer-Z 1981 Ronnie Talk to Russia Prince 1981 Russians Sting 1985 Rust in Peace... Polaris Megadeth 1990 S.D.I. Loudness 1987 Seconds U2 1982 Set the World Afire Megadeth 1988 Shattered Pantera 1990 Skeletons of Society Slayer 1990 Sign o' the Times Prince 1987 So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish A Perfect Circle 2018 So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III) Tom Lehrer 1965 Soviet Snow Shona Laing 1987 The Stage Avenged Sevenfold 2016 Stagnation Genesis 1970 Stop the World The Clash 1980 Strike Zone Loverboy 1983 The Sun Is Burning Ian Campbell 1963 Summer of ‘81 Mondo Rock 1981 Sunrise Icehouse 1987 Survive Nuclear Assault 1988 Survivor's Song Julia Ecklar 1986 Talkin' World War III Blues Bob Dylan 1963 The Apple Tree Difford & Tilbrook 1984 The Temptation of Adam Josh Ritter 2007 Thank Christ for The Bomb Groundhogs 1970 Thank God for The Bomb Ozzy Osbourne 1986 The Sun Is Burning Simon & Garfunkel 1964 This World Over XTC 1984 Time After Time Electric Light Orchestra 1983 Time Will Crawl David Bowie 1987 Total Eclipse Klaus Nomi 1981 Town to Town Microdisney 1987 Tropicana Gruppo Italiano 2002 Twilight Gods Helloween 1987 Two Minute Warning Depeche Mode 1983 Two Suns In the Sunset Pink Floyd 1983 Two Tribes Frankie Goes to Hollywood 1984 Vamos a la Playa Righeira 1983 Vaporized X-15 1981 Victims of the Future Gary Moore 1983 Walk the Dinosaur Was (Not Was) 1987 Walking in Your Footsteps The Police 1983 The Wanderer U2 and Johnny Cash 1993 Warhead Tarot 1997 Warhead UK Subs 1980 We Don't Want No Nuclear War Peter Tosh 1987 We Will All Go Together When We Go Tom Lehrer 1959 We Will Become Silhouettes The Postal Service 2005 What Have They Done Squeeze 1986 When the Wind Blows David Bowie 1986 White Train Bananarama 1986 Will The Sun Rise? Dokken 1985 Wind of Change Scorpions 1991 Wooden Ships Crosby, Stills & Nash 1969 World Destruction Time Zone 1984 World War III D.O.A. 1979 World Wars III & IV Carnivore 1985 Wernher von BraunTom Lehrer1965Who's Next?Tom Lehrer1965
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