List of songs about nuclear war

Songs with a theme of nuclear war have been a feature of popular culture since the early years of the Cold War.[1]


Song name Artist Year Comment
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 [2]
A Blue Wave Cleaners From Venus 1981
Adrian Eurythmics 1985
A Flash in the Night Secret Service (band) 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
April 2031 Warrant 1992
Arise Sepultura 1991
Armageddon Days (Are Here Again) The The 1989
As The World Burns Bolt Thrower 1992
As the World Caves In Matt Maltese 2017
Atom and Evil Heaven and Hell 2009
Atom Bomb Glenn Barber 1955
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
Bomb Iran JC & The B-1 Bombers 1980
The Bomb Song Darwin Deez 2010
Bombe the Russians Fear 1985
Boom! System of a Down 2002 on the album Steal This Album!
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 Down the House Talking Heads 1983
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 at the Nuclear Holocaust Doug P. Stone 1977 [3]
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
D-Day Bus Boys 2001
Dig a Hole in the Ground Fred Small 2011
Disaster Area All Out Attack 2006
Distant Early Warning Rush 1984
Does Anybody Care Alex Hirsch 2022 [4]
Domino Genesis 1986
Don't Crash Front 242 1987
Do the Evolution Pearl Jam 1998 [5]
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 Moto" By 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
Fallout Shelter Peter Scott Peters 1961
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 (band) 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
History (remember Hiroshima & Nagasaki) John McGuinness John McGuinness & Vince Lewis band (2018) 1984
Hiroshima Gary Moore 1983
Hiroshima Sandra 1990
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[1]: 117  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
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! 2009 lyrics and title refer to nuclear war; the whole album's and lyrics refer to atomic war
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
New Mexico Oppenheimer Analysis 1982
No Nuclear War Peter Tosh 1987
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 Sun Ra [6] 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 1985 from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Oppenheimer Leni Oppenheimer 2019
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
Pronto viviremos en la Luna Spanish singer-songwriter 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
Ride the Wind Crazy Planet 1988
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 Afraid of the Russians Made for TV 1983
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
Strontium 90 Fred & Betty Dallas with Ron Fielder 1959
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
When They Drop the Atomic Bomb Jackie Doll and the Pickled Peppers [1]: 130  1951
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 (band) 1985


References

  1. ^ a b c Charles K. Wolfe; James E. Akenson (2015). Country Music Goes to War. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-4965-3.
  2. ^ Hurley, Jessica (2014). "War as Peace: Afterlives of Nuclear War in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest". In Blouin, Michael; Shipley, Morgan; Taylor, Jack (eds.). The Silence of Fallout: Nuclear Criticism in a Post-Cold War World. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 192. ISBN 978-1-4438-4479-6.
  3. ^ "Dancing at the Nuclear Holocaust". YouTube.
  4. ^ "Does AnybodyCare". YouTube.
  5. ^ Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution (Official Video), retrieved 2022-12-23
  6. ^ "Sun Ra and His Outer Space Arkestra on Amazon Music". Amazon.
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