While many songs have dealt with these topics over the decades, very few actually so far as to use the term “World War III” explicitly. Over the years, the frequency of these types of songs usually ebb and flow directly with times of war (or threat of war), which makes many of them seem regrettably relevant again in our current adversarial political climate. and Russia played a game of chicken that teetered on igniting an all-out war on multiple occasions. Since that time, sentiments about World War III and all of its trappings (Cold War terminology, fear of nuclear war, mutually assured destruction, call outs of specific political players, etc.) have been a mainstay in popular music, reaching a feverish pitch in the 1980s, as the U.S. It didn’t take much longer for World War III terminology to start showing up in music, with its first outcroppings naturally occurring in the politically charged early-‘60s folk revival movement.
In fact, Cold War paranoia was so prevalent that as early as 1951 we had the sci-fi parable The Day The Earth Stood Still in theaters and Collier’s Preview of the War We Do Not Want issue on newsstands. As soon as Germany and Japan signed their own treaties of surrender in 1945 to end World War II, the term “World War III” almost immediately became pop cultural fodder.
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