List of Anti-war Songs - Cold War/Nuclear Annihilation

Cold War/Nuclear Annihilation

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  • "1999" - Prince (1982)
  • "2 Minutes to Midnight" – Iron Maiden (1984)
  • "20 Tons of TNT" – Flanders and Swann
  • "99 Luftballons" and "99 Red Balloons" – Nena (1983)
  • "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" – Bob Dylan (1963)
  • "Atomic Garden" - Bad Religion (1992)
  • "Balls to the Wall" - Accept (1983)
  • "Battalions of Fear" - Blind Guardian (1988)
  • "Blackened" – Metallica (1988)
  • "Black Planet" - The Sisters of Mercy (1985)
  • "Brighter than a Thousand Suns" - Iron Maiden (2006)
  • "Breathing" - Kate Bush (1980)
  • "Children of the Grave" – Black Sabbath (1971)
  • "Cold War" – Funker Vogt (2000)
  • "Curfew" - The Stranglers (1978)
  • "Dawn Patrol" - Megadeth
  • "Destruction Preventer" - Sonata Arctica (1999)
  • "Eagle Fly Free" – Helloween (1988)
  • "East at Easter" - Simple Minds (1983)
  • "Electric Funeral" - Black Sabbath (1970)
  • "Eve of Destruction" – P.F. Sloan (also recorded by Barry McGuire and The Turtles) (1965)
  • "Fight Fire with Fire" – Metallica (1984)
  • "Forever Young" - Alphaville (1984)
  • "Fire in the Sky" - Saxon (1981)
  • "Hammer to Fall" – Queen (1983)
  • "Hiroshima (song)" - Wishful Thinking (1971)
  • "I Come and Stand at Every Door" (based on a poem by Nazım Hikmet) – Pete Seeger (1962); The Byrds (1966)
  • "It only takes two to tango" - The Stranglers (1981)
  • "It's a Mistake" – Men at Work (1983)
  • "Killer of Giants" – Ozzy Osbourne (1986)
  • "Killing Fields" - Scanner (1988)
  • "Land of Confusion" – Genesis (1986)
  • "Leningrad" - Billy Joel (1989)
  • "London Calling" – The Clash (1979)
  • "Manhattan Project" - Rush (1985)
  • "Minutes to Midnight" - Midnight Oil (1984)
  • "New Year's Day" - U2 (1983)
  • "Nikita" - Elton John (1985)
  • "Nuclear Winter" – Funker Vogt (2000)
  • "Paint Your Windows White" - Alien Stash Tin (2011)
  • "Part IV (The Index Fossil)" - Bad Religion (1988)
  • "People are People" - Depeche Mode (1984)
  • "Pre-War America" – The Beatnigs (1988)
  • "Russians" – Sting (1985)
  • "Rust in Peace" – Megadeth (1990)
  • "Seconds" - U2 (1983)
  • "Set the World Afire" - Megadeth (1988)
  • "Surfin' USSR" - Ray Stevens (1988)
  • "Thank God For the Bomb" - Ozzy Osbourne (1986)
  • "The American" - Simple Minds (1991)
  • "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" - Timbuk3 (1986)
  • "They've Got a Bomb" – Crass (1979)
  • "Two Suns in the Sunset" – Pink Floyd (1983)
  • "Two Tribes" – Frankie Goes to Hollywood (1984)
  • "US Forces" - Midnight Oil (1982)
  • "Воля и Разум" ("Will and Reason") - Aria / Master (1985)
  • "When Two Worlds Collide" - Simple Minds (1981)
  • "Wind of Change" – Scorpions (1990)

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Famous quotes containing the words cold, war, nuclear and/or annihilation:

    “The eyes of strangers
    Are cold as snowdrops....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “Then down came the lid—the day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo. World-politics stepped in, and a war was started which has not ended yet: a “war to end war.” But it merely ended art. It did not end war.”
    —Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)

    “Could it not be that just at the moment masculinity has brought us to the brink of nuclear destruction or ecological suicide, women are beginning to rise in response to the Mother’s call to save her planet and create instead the next stage of evolution? Can our revolution mean anything else than the reversion of social and economic control to Her representatives among Womankind, and the resumption of Her worship on the face of the Earth? Do we dare demand less?”
    —Jane Alpert (b. 1947)

    “How can anyone be interested in war?—that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling of human bones and muscles and organs and eyes, its inconceivable agonies which could have been prevented by a few well- chosen, reasonable words. How, why, did this unnecessary business begin? Why does anyone want to read about it—this redundant human madness which men accept as inevitable?”
    —Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)