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, cold, war, nuclear and/or annihilation:

    “Professor: War is hell, Mr. Thornhill, even if it’s just a cold one.
    Roger Thornhill: If you fellows can’t lick the Vandamms of this world without asking girls like her to bed down with them, and fly away with them, and probably never come back, perhaps you ought to start learning how to lose a few cold wars.
    Professor: I’m afraid we’re already doing that.”
    —Ernest Lehman (b.1920)

    “Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.”
    —Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)

    “This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final Note stating that, unless we heard from them by 11 o’clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Germany.”
    —Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940)

    “The problems of the world, AIDS, cancer, nuclear war, pollution, are, finally, no more solvable than the problem of a tree which has borne fruit: the apples are overripe and they are falling—what can be done?... Nothing can be done, and nothing needs to be done. Something is being done—the organism is preparing to rest.”
    —David Mamet (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)