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Category: Songs about nuclear war and weapons. 9 languages. ... Wooden Ships This page was last edited on 21 March 2022, at 07:12 (UTC). Text ...
Songs with a theme of nuclear war have been a feature of popular culture since the early years of the Cold War. [1] "4 Minute Warning" By Radiohead (2007) "137" By Brand New (2017) "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)" by Jimi Hendrix "1999" By Prince (1982) "2 Minutes to Midnight" By Iron Maiden (1984) "540,000 Degrees Fahrenheit" by Fear ...
Songs about the Cold War Title By Notes "1999" Prince "Yeah, everybody's got a bomb, We could all die any day", referring to nuclear proliferation "2 Minutes to Midnight" Iron Maiden: refers to the Doomsday Clock, the symbolic clock used by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In September 1953 the clock reached 23:58, the closest the clock ...
"Shipbuilding" is a song with lyrics by Elvis Costello and music by Clive Langer. [1] Written during the Falklands War of 1982, Costello's lyrics highlight the irony of the war bringing back prosperity to the traditional shipbuilding areas of Clydeside, Merseyside (Cammell Laird), North East England and Belfast (Harland and Wolff) [2] to build new ships to replace those being sunk in the war ...
By the late 20 th century, new ballistic missiles began approaching the ‘within-a-few-meters’ level of precision needed to reliably hit ship-sized targets. But the moving problem was still ...
This is a list of ships sunk by missiles.Ships have been sunk by unguided projectiles for many centuries, but the introduction of guided missiles during World War II changed the dynamics of naval warfare. 1943 saw the first ships to be sunk by guided weapons, launched from aircraft, although it was not until 1967 that a ship was sunk by a missile launched from another ship outside a test ...
Some anti-war songs lament aspects of wars, while others patronize war.Most promote peace in some form, while others sing out against specific armed conflicts. Still others depict the physical and psychological destruction that warfare causes to soldiers, innocent civilians, and humanity as a whole.
John Shearer/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Taylor Swift is notorious for penning lyrics about the highs — and lows — of her own high-profile romances over the years. While ...