@FeloniousPunk the entire story of "1999" is "tomorrow we could be obliterated, but don't let that stop us from partying tonight".

It''s also in the background of some of the Oils' 1980s output. "Hammer and the sickle, news is at a trickle, commisars are fickle but the stockpiles grow. Bombers keeping coming, engines softly humming, Stars and Stripes are running for their own big show. Another little flare up, storm brewed in a teacup, imagine any mixup and the lot would go" - "Read About It". "ICBM, SS20, they lie so dormant, they got so many" - "Minutes to Midnight", which isn't the only absolute classic 1980s track based on the doomsday clock.

Geography class, about 1983, we did a quick assessment of what would happen to our town if the Russians decided to bomb a major strategic target about 20 km away. The results would not have been pretty, especially if there was a southerly blowing at the time.