Main theme is criticism about the US bombing campaign ( Operation Menu) on Eastern Cambodia during the Vietnam War. The East versus West conflict is reflected by the fight in the boxing ring between Rocky and Ivan DragoĪ song about USAF "Missilemen" in underground ICBM bases, who would initiate the actual launch
Originally written about the United States' military intervention during the 1980s in the Salvadoran Civil War president Ronald Reagan to a military cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany, on May 5, 1985Ībout the Vietnam War and the mistreatment of veteransĪbout a foetus aware of what is going on outside the womb and frightened by nuclear fallout, which implies that the song is set either during a nuclear war scare or a post-apocalyptic birth Written in reaction to the visit paid by U.S.
The cover by Love and Rockets could be interpreted as being in response to the hostilities between the US and USSR during the eighties. Vietnam protest song, later covered by various artists including Love and Rockets. (1951), a pro-US song, mocking Stalin and bringing up the German invasion of the Soviet UnionĮxpresses the singer's great happiness on returning home to the USSR from the United States political observers saw it as pro-Soviet The song imagines a world where the release of 99 balloons triggers governments to scramble fighter jets to intercept them, ultimately leading to total nuclear annihilation. This occurred when the United States and Soviet Union tested H-bombs within nine months of one another. In September 1953 the clock reached 23:58, the closest the clock ever got to midnight when the song was written. Refers to the Doomsday Clock, the symbolic clock used by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. "Yeah, everybody's got a bomb, We could all die any day", referring to nuclear proliferation This is a list of songs about the Cold War. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
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