List of songs about the Cold War

This is a list of songs about the Cold War.

• "1999" by Prince. "Yeah, everybodys got a bomb, We could all die any day" - referring to nuclear proliferation.
• "2 Minutes to Midnight" – 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 ever got to midnight. This occurred when the United States and Soviet Union tested H-bombs within nine months of one another.
• "99 Luftballons" – release of 99 balloons triggers governments to scramble fighter jets to intercept them, ultimately leading to a nuclear war.
• "Minnesota" - Lil Yachy Ft. Quavo Skippa Da Flippa and Young Thug (Remix) Comments on the tensions with Soviet Russia and the US in the Cold War.
• "A Great Day for Freedom"
• "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" – 1962 song by Bob Dylan, widely interpreted by reference to the Cuban missile crisis, even though it was written before that date
• "Back in the USSR" – 1968 song by the Beatles, telling of the singer's great happiness on returning home to the USSR from the United States; political observers saw it as pro-Soviet.
• "Balls to the Wall" – about human rights
• "Be Not Always", a 1984 song from The Jacksons' Victory LP
• "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" – written in reaction to the visit paid by U.S. president Ronald Reagan to a military cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany, on May 5, 1985
• "Breathing" – about a foetus aware of what is going on outside the womb and frightened by nuclear fallout, which implies that the song is set either during a nuclear war scare or a post-apocalyptic birth
• "Bullet the Blue Sky" – originally written about the United States' military intervention during the 1980s in the Salvadoran Civil War
• "Burning Heart" – The East versus West conflict is reflected by the fight in the boxing ring between Rocky and Ivan Drago
• "Christmas at Ground Zero"
• "Crazy Train" – main theme of the song is criticism of Cold War
• "Cult of Personality"
• "Defcon" (Impakt song, Dunk Yer Funk Records)
• "Der Kommissar"
• "Dominion/Mother Russia"
• "Eighties" by Killing Joke
• "Eve of Destruction"
• "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"
• "Everyday Is Like Sunday"
• "Fortunate Son" - Creedence Clearwater Revival. The sons of fortunate men in America avoid the draft to Vietnam
• "Games Without Frontiers"
• "Goodnight Saigon" - Song about the Vietnam War.
• "Hammer to Fall"
• "Heresy" by Rush
• "Heroes" by David Bowie – a love song depicting lovers kissing "by the wall"
• "Hiroshima"
• "Holidays in the Sun"
• "It's a Mistake"
• "Land of Confusion"
• "Lawyers, Guns and Money"
• "Leningrad"
• "Mutually Assured Destruction" by Gillan
• "Nikita" – a love song set against the East German border: the singer describes his crush on a beautiful border guard whom he cannot meet because he is not allowed into the country.
• "Nuku pommiin"
• "New Year's Day"
• "Oh Moscow"
• "Party at Ground Zero"
• "Radio Free Europe"
• "Right Here, Right Now" by Jesus Jones
• "Ronnie – Talk To Russia!" – cover says "Featuring Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev"
• "Russians" by Sting
• "So Long Mom (A Song For World War III)", by Tom Lehrer
• "Subterraneans"
• "The Fletcher Memorial Home"
• "The Tide Is Turning" by Roger Waters
• "The Visitors" by ABBA
• "The Wall" by Steppenwolf
• "Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
• "Two Suns in the Sunset" by Pink Floyd
• "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel
• "Weeping Wall" – described by Bowie as intending to evoke the misery of the Berlin Wall
• "When the Wind Blows"
• "Wind of Change" by Scorpions
• "State of the Nation" by Industry