Just in case anyone wasn't there for the 1980s... and missed the omnipresent feeling of nuclear war.
And inspired by "I Want My Mutually Assured Destruction
How 1980s MTV helped my students understand the Cold War"
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/my-mtv-cold-war-retrospective/618812/
So here's a few really obvious songs I happen to remember.
Weird Al's Christmas at Ground Zero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t039p6xqutU
Tom Lehrer's We'll all go together when we go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs
Sting's I hope the Russians love their children too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHylQRVN2Qs

