This is a list of songs in which the primary subject is nuclear war.

• "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" by Pere Ubu
• "99 Red Balloons" by Nena

- nuclear war is caused by the release of party balloons.

• "Blackened" by Metallica
• "Black Planet" by The Sisters of Mercy
• "Christmas at Ground Zero" by Weird Al Yankovic

- black humor with fallout replacing snow

• "Boom!" by System of a Down
• "Dancing with Tears in my Eyes" by Ultravox
• "Distant Early Warning" by Rush (In reference to the Distant Early Warning Line)
• "Enola Gay" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

- about the bomber Enola Gay which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

• "Hammer to Fall" by Queen
• "The Earth dies screaming" by UB40
• "Man At C & A" by The Specials
• "Party at Ground Zero" by Fishbone
• "Political Science" by Randy Newman
• "Russians" by Sting
• "Red Rain" by Peter Gabriel
• "Sorrow" by Pink Floyd
• "Terminus" by Skyclad
• "Two Suns in the Sunset" by Pink Floyd
• "We Will Become Silhouettes" by The Postal Service

Songs where nuclear war is referenced or implied

• "Wild Wild West" by Escape Club (.."Ronny's got a new gun"..)
• "Land Down Under" by Men at Work (Australia was thought to be one of the last places humanity would be safe in a nuclear war)
• "Children of the grave" by Black Sabbath
• "Dominion Mother Russia" by the Sisters of Mercy