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I thought it would be fun to compile a list of classic new wave and punk songs that addressed the then very real fear of nuclear war and the madness of the arms race back in the day. While we're at it, may as well include energy crisis, ecology and songs about pollution.

The Clash - London Calling
XTC - This World Over
Translator - Sleeping Snakes
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes
Fischer-Z - Remember Russia
The Stranglers - Nuclear Device (The Wizard of Aus)
Space Monkey - Can't Stop Running
Sting - We Work the Black Seam
Depeche Mode - The Landscape Is Changing
The Sound - Missiles
China Crisis - Papua
OMD - Enola Gay
Athletico Spizz 80 - Energy Crisis
Midnight Oil - US Forces

I'm sure I'll have more to add later.

Sting - Russians
INXS - Guns in the Sky
Ramones - Bonzo Goes to Bitzburg
Time Zone - Word Destruction
CCCP - American Soviets
Much of Big Country's and the Alarm's library

-Devo 'Space Junk'
-Rational Youth 'Dancing on the Berlin Wall'
-OMD 'electricity' (pro Solar energy song)

Isn't it Re-Flex who does that song with Sting - - "How Much Longer must we wait..."

How About:
"99 Luft Balloons"- Nena
"Soviet Snow"- Shona Laing
"Bombs Away"- The Police
"Stand or Fall"- The Fixx
"Red Skies"- The Fixx
"Generals And Majors"- XTC
"Double Does Good"- Eurhythmics

Also, on an environmental note:
"Channel Z"- B52s

Seems like the punkers really beat this one to death!

FEAR - Bomb the Russians
Hated - Seize the Middle East
Wasted Youth - Reagans In
Sin 34 - Nuclear War
Exploited - Let's Start a War
Germs - Forming
SeX PiStoLs - Holidays in the Sun
The Busin

forgot Men at Work - "It's a Mistake"

There are just way too many! But, my favorite is definitely "Heatwave" by Fay Ray.

here are some preachy no nuke type tunes, hell if it were up to me I would be pressing that little red nuke button like it was space invaders and nuke us all......

The Jam--Going Underground (at least the video has a no nuke flavor)
XTC--Living throug