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.
List of songs about nuclear war
- "Adrian" By Eurythmics
- "Afraid of the Russians" By Made for TV
- "After the Fall" By Klaus Nomi
- "After the Holocaust" By Nuclear Assault
- "After the War" By Asia
- "Aftermath" By Armored Saint
- "Aftershock" By Anthrax
- "All Fall Down" By B-Movie
- "Always the Sun" By The Stranglers
- "American Soviets" By CCCP
- "April 2031" By Warrant
- "Armageddon Days " By The The
- "As The World Burns" By Bolt Thrower
- "Atom Drub Bop" By The Three Johns
- "Atom Tan" By The Clash
- "Atomic Dog" By George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars
- "Atomic Playboys" By Steve Stevens
- "Back to Zero" By The Rolling Stones
- "Beat Street" By Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
- "Beneath the Remains" By Sepultura
- "Between the Wheels" By Rush
- "Billy's Line" By Red Box
- "Birthright" By Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe
- "Black Celebration" By Depeche Mode
- "Black Planet" By The Sisters of Mercy
- "Blackened" By Metallica
- "Blossom and Blood" By Midnight Oil
- "Blow the House Down" By Siouxsie and the Banshees
- "Blowin' Sky High" By Berlin
- "Bombers" By David Bowie
- "Bomb Iran" By JC & The B-1 Bombers
- "Bombe the Russians" By Fear
- "Boom Box" By Vitabeats
- "Breathing" By Kate Bush
- "Brighter Than A Thousand Suns" By Iron Maiden
- "Burning Down the House" By Talking Heads
- "Burning Heart" By Survivor
- "Can't Stop Running" By Space Monkey
- "Channel-Z" By The B-52's
- "Chemical Warfare" By Slayer
- "Christmas at Ground Zero" By "Weird Al" Yankovic
- "Cities in Dust" By Siouxsie & The Banshees
- "Claude Rains" By The Front Lawn
- "Clean, Clean" By Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club / The Buggles
- "Cloudburst at Shingle St." By Thomas Dolby
- "Come Away Melinda" By Bobbie Gentry
- "Countdown to Zero" By Asia
- "Crawl Out Through the Fallout" By Sheldon Allman
- "Cries of Help" By Discharge
- "Cruise" By David Gilmour
- "Cruise Missiles" By Fischer-Z
- "Cuando Seas Grande" By Miguel Mateos
- "Curfew" By The Stranglers
- "Current Events" By Joe King Carrasco and the Crowns
- "Dancing With Tears in My Eyes" By Ultravox
- "Dangerous Moments" By Martin Briley
- "Dawn Patrol" By Megadeth
- "The Day After" By The Men They Couldn't Hang
- "The Dead Next Door" By Billy Idol
- "De Bom" By Doe Maar
- "Def.Com.One" By Pop Will Eat Itself
- "D-Day" By Bus Boys
- "Dig a Hole in the Ground" By Fred Small
- "Disaster Area" By All Out Attack
- "Distant Early Warning" By Rush
- "Domino" By Genesis
- "Don't Crash" By Front 242
- "Do You Believe in the Westworld?" By Theatre of Hate
- "Down from the Sky" By Trivium
- "Dream Home in New Zealand" By The Beat
- "Dream Told by Moto" By Minutemen
- "Earth Crusher" By Mr. Lif
- "Eighth Day" By Hazel O'Connor
- "Einstein A Go Go" By Landscape
- "Electric Funeral" By Black Sabbath
- "The End" By Discharge
- "Enola Gay" By OMD
- "Euroshima" By John Waite
- "Eve of Destruction" By Barry McGuire
- "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" By Wang Chung
- "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" By Tears for Fears
- "Everyday Is Like Sunday" By Morrissey
- "Fabulous Disaster" By Exodus
- "Fallout" By Data
- "Fallout Shelter" By Peter Scott Peters
- "Famous Last Words" By Tears for Fears
- "Fight Fire with Fire" By Metallica
- "The Final Bloodbath" By Discharge
- "The Final Countdown" By Europe
- "Fire in the Sky" By Saxon
- "Fireside Favourite" By Fad Gadget
- "Five Years" By David Bowie
- "Flame of the West" By Big Country
- "Flyingdale Flyer" By Jethro Tull
- "Forever Young" By Alphaville
- "Four Minute Warning" By Mark Owen
- "Four Minutes" By Culture Shock
- "Four Minutes" By Roger Waters
- "French Letters" By Herbs
- "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" By Timbuk 3
- "Games Without Frontiers" by Peter Gabriel
- "Glad It's All Over" By Captain Sensible
- "The Great Atomic Power" By The Louvin Brothers
- "Ground B Sound" By Death Piggy
- "Ground Zero Brooklyn" By Carnivore
- "The Gunner's Dream- Paranoid Eyes" By Pink Floyd
- "Guns in the Sky" By INXS
- "Hallowed Ground" By Violent Femmes
- "Hammer to Fall" By Queen
- "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" By Bob Dylan
- "Harrisburg" By Midnight Oil
- "Heat" By Leslie Spit Treeo
- "Heatwave" By Fay Ray
- "A Hell On Earth" By Discharge
- "He Looks Like Spencer Tracy Now" By Deacon Blue
- "Help Save the Youth of America" By Billy Bragg
- "Hercules" By Midnight Oil
- "Here Comes President Kill Again" By XTC
- "Here Comes Your Man" By Pixies
- "Heresy" By Rush
- "Hiroshima" By Gary Moore
- "Hiroshima" By Sandra
- "Hiroshima Nagasaki, Russian Roulette" By Moving Hearts
- "Hiroshima, Mon Amour" By Ultravox
- "House at Pooneil Corners" By Jefferson Airplane
- "Human Error" By Subhumans
- "I.C.B.M." By Amebix
- "I Come and Stand at Every Door" By The Byrds
- "I Don't Wanna Die" By 4 Skins
- "I Found That Essence Rare" By Gang of Four
- "Ignorance" By Sacred Reich
- "I Love the World" By New Model Army
- "I Melt with You" By Modern English
- "In the Hole" By Armored Saint
- "Invasion" By Skrewdriver
- "I Remember the Sun" By XTC
- "Is There Something I Should Know?" By Duran Duran
- "It's A Mistake" By Men At Work
- "I've Known No War" By The Who
- "I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" By Nik Kershaw
- "Janitor" By Suburban Lawns
- "Just Another Day" By Oingo Boingo
- "Jesus Hits Like the Atomic Bomb" By Lowell Blanchard and the Vally Trio
- "Kill for Peace" By The Fugs
- "Kill the Poor" By Dead Kennedys
- "Killer of Giants" By Ozzy Osbourne
- "Kinky Sex Makes the World Go Round" By Dead Kennedys
- "King of the World" By Steely Dan
- "Land of Confusion" By Genesis
- "Last Domino" By Genesis
- "Last in the House of Flames" By UK Decay
- "Lawyers in Love" By Jackson Browne
- "Leave in Silence" By Depeche Mode
- "Leningrad" By Billy Joel
- "Let Me Die In My Footsteps" By Bob Dylan
- "Let's All Make A Bomb" By Heaven 17
- "Let's Have A War" By Fear
- "Let's Talk About it" By Dweezil Zappa
- "Life During Wartime" By Talking Heads
- "Listen" By Tears For Fears
- "Live Fast, Die Young" By Circle Jerks
- "Living Through Another Cuba" By XTC
- "Lock and Key" By Rush
- "Love Missile F1-11" By Sigue Sigue Sputnik
- "Lovers in a Dangerous Time" By Bruce Cockburn
- "Man at C&A" By The Specials
- "Manhattan Project" By Rush
- "Maralinga" By Urban Guerrillas
- "Massive Retaliation" By Sigue Sigue Sputnik
- "Mediate" By INXS
- "Merry Minuet" By Kingston Trio
- "Missiles" By The Sound
- "Mutually Assured Destruction " By Gillan
- "Nagasaki Nightmare" By Crass
- "New Frontier" By Donald Fagen
- "North Winds Blowing" By The Stranglers
- "Nuclear Attack" By Gary Moore
- "Nuclear Attack" By Sabaton
- "Nuclear Cop" By Redgum
- "Nuclear War" By Sun Ra Arkestra
- "Nuclear War" By New Politics
- "Nuclear War" By Yo La Tengo
- "On the Beach" By The Comsat Angels
- "Oppenheimer" By Leni Oppenheimer
- "Paranoid Chant" By Minutemen
- "Party at Ground Zero" By Fishbone
- "Planet Earth" By Duran Duran
- "Political Science" By Randy Newman
- "Protect and Survive" By Runrig
- "Radiation Sickness" By Nuclear Assault
- "Red Rain" By Peter Gabriel
- "Red Shadows" By T.S.O.L.
- "Red Skies" By The Fixx
- "Ride the Wind" By Crazy Planet
- "Russians" By Sting
- "Rust in Peace... Polaris" By Megadeth
- "Seconds" By U2
- "Set the World Afire" By Megadeth
- "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" by A Perfect Circle
- “Soviet Snow” By Shona Laing
- "The Stage" By Avenged Sevenfold
- "Stop the World" By The Clash
- "Strike Zone" By Loverboy
- "The Sun Is Burning" By Ian Campbell
- "Strontium 90" By Fred & Betty Dallas with Ron Fielder
- "Sunrise" By Icehouse
- "Thank Christ for The Bomb" By Groundhogs
- "Time Will Crawl" By David Bowie
- "Total Eclipse" By Klaus Nomi
- "Tropicana" By Gruppo Italiano
- "Twilight Gods" By Helloween
- "Two Suns In the Sunset" By Pink Floyd
- "Two Tribes" By Frankie Goes to Hollywood
- "Vamos a la Playa" by Righeira
- "Walk the Dinosaur" by Was
- "The Wanderer" By U2 and Johnny Cash
- "Warhead" By UK Subs
- "We Don't Want No Nuclear War" By Peter Tosh
- "We Will All Go Together When We Go" By Tom Lehrer
- "We Will Become Silhouettes" By The Postal Service
- "When They Drop the Atomic Bomb" By Jackie Doll and the Pickled Peppers
- “White Train” by Bananarama
- "Wind of Change" By Scorpions
- "Wooden Ships" By Crosby, Stills & Nash
- "World Destruction" By Time Zone
- "World Wars III & IV" By Carnivore
- "137" By Brand New
- "1999" By Prince
- "2 Minutes to Midnight" By Iron Maiden
- "99 Luftballons" By Nena