List of songs about nuclear war

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

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References

  1. 1 2 3 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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