' Bullet the Blue Sky' – originally written about the United States' military intervention during the 1980s in the Salvadoran Civil War.

' Breathing' by Kate Bush – 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.

' Born in the USA' by Bruce Springsteen – about the Vietnam War and the mistreatment of veterans.

president Ronald Reagan to a military cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany, on May 5, 1985

' Bonzo Goes to Bitburg' – written in reaction to the visit paid by U.S.

'Be Not Always', a 1984 song from The Jacksons' Victory LP.

' Balls to the Wall' – about human rights.

' Back in the USSR' by the Beatles – expresses the singer's great happiness on returning home to the USSR from the United States political observers saw it as pro-Soviet (1968).

'Advice to Joe' by Roy Acuff, a pro-US song, mocking Stalin and bringing up the German invasion of the Soviet Union (1951).

' 99 Luftballons' by German singer Nena – the song imagines a world where the release of 99 balloons triggers governments to scramble fighter jets to intercept them, ultimately leading to total nuclear annihilation.

This occurred when the United States and Soviet Union tested H-bombs within nine months of one another.

In September 1953 the clock reached 23:58, the closest the clock ever got to midnight.

' 2 Minutes to Midnight' by Iron Maiden – refers to the Doomsday Clock, the symbolic clock used by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

' 1999' by Prince – 'Yeah, everybody's got a bomb, We could all die any day', referring to nuclear proliferation.

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