Cold War era songs, Armageddon-ish

Universal Solder - written by Buffy Sainte-Marie, Donovan's version is better known

Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie

I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag - Country Joe and the Fish

That's all I can think of now.

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<hr>Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire <hr></blockquote>I love this song for the simple reason that it's the only song I can think of (off the top of my head) that uses the word "coagulating".

Two tribes - Frankie goes to Hollywood

Life During Wartime - Talking Heads

"This is the song that some of the boys sang as they went bravely off to World War III:"

So long, mom,
I'm off to drop the bomb,
So don't wait up for me.
But while you swelter
Down there in your shelter
You can see me
On your TV.

While we're attacking frontally
Watch Brinkally and Huntally
Describing contrapuntally
The cities we have lost.
No need for you to miss a minute
of the agonizing holocaust.

(Verse:)

Little Johnny Jones, he was a US pilot,
And no shrinking violet was he.
He was mighty proud when World War III was declared.
He wasn't scared, no siree!

And this is what he said on
His way to Armageddon:

So long, mom,
I'm off to drop the bomb,
So don't wait up for me.
But though I may roam,
I'll come back to my home
Although it may be
A pile of debris.

Remember, mommy,
I'm off to get a commie,
So send me a salami
And try to smile somehow.
I'll look for you when the war is over,
An hour and a half from now!

-- Tom Lehrer.

There's also his "Who's Next" when the subject of nuclear proliferation first became a hot topic. (After China got the bomb.)

#17, good one. I love Tom Lehrer!
He also had the song about countries acquiring nuclear weapons called "Who's Next?"
The lord's my shepherd says the psalm but just in case.... we're gonna get the bomb...

How about...

Shades of '45 - Red Rockers (they also covered Eve of Destruction, from post #1)
Futures So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk Three
World Destruction - John Lydon & Afrika Bambaataa
Party at Ground Zero - Fishbone

Urgh, I feel like there were a million songs like this in the 80s but for some reason none of springing to mind....

Two tribes - frankie goes to hollywood