Nuclear warfare (sometimes atomic warfare or thermonuclear warfare), is a military conflict or political strategy in which nuclear weaponry is used to inflict damage on an opponent. Compared to conventional warfare, nuclear warfare can be vastly more destructive in range and extent of damage, and in a much shorter time scale. A major nuclear exchange could have severe long-term effects, primarily from radiation release, but also from the production of high levels of atmospheric pollution leading to a "nuclear winter" that could last for decades, centuries, or even millennia after the initial attack. A large nuclear war is considered to bear existential risk for civilization on Earth.
Only two nuclear weapons have been used in the course of warfare, both by the United States near the end of World War II. On August 6, 1945, a uranium gun-type device (code name "Little Boy") was detonated over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9, a plutonium implosion-type device (code name "Fat Man") was exploded over Nagasaki, Japan. These two bombings resulted in the deaths of approximately 200,000 Japanese people (mostly civilians) from acute injuries sustained in the detonations.
Gwynne Dyer, OC (born April 17, 1943) is a London-based independent Canadian journalist, syndicated columnist and military historian.
Dyer was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and joined the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve at the age of sixteen. While still in the naval reserve, he obtained a BA in History from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1963; an MA in Military History from Rice University, Houston, Texas, in 1966; and a PhD in Military and Middle Eastern History at King's College London in 1973. Dyer served in the Canadian, American, and British naval reserves. He was employed as a Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, 1973-77. In 1973 he began writing articles for leading London newspapers on the Arab-Israeli conflict, and soon decided to abandon academic life for a full-time career in journalism. In 2010, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Fast and pure desolation
Lust the blood in my brain
Hard and dry destruction
Wet under the neutron rain
Die in this Holocaust
Scream the deflect attack
Burn before we reload
Strees before...
The power blast
WAR! A command for blood
We scream
DIE! Nothing less than
death we creep
Storm the only weather
Start the directives assassins
Warm inside the under shelter
Wait and fell your broiling skin
Hot oz one disappear
Blight in the atomic detention
Rats it's a survival breed
Destroy with deflagration
I have one track it's to kill
You'll never stop me
Running my evil way
With radioactivity
My machine comes at night
Missiles they stike
Save your life in the dark
For the loud attack
Hey! nuclear war!
I'm realy up tonite
For my last ride
Never returning at home
I'm gonna die
The war machine is not save
And i can't escape
When the bombs will hit
War has come
To your home
Now it lies destroyed
Nuclear war, the final war
The end of all man's dreams
No one wins
In this game
Both sides have lost
Who has won
When all are dead
Except for the machines
Looking at the future
There's no much to see
Your homeland lies under
Radioctive debris
Millions dead
More on the way
What is worth this cost
For your god
And country
You'd destroy the world
It is madness
To believe
That you can survive
Take my word
You'd rather not
It's better just to die
Looking at the future
There's no much to see
Your homeland lies under
Radioctive debris
Face this, the missile's on the way.
Crisis, will the bomb be dropped today?
Last war, to end this bloody mess.
Danger, It's you the real menace.
With all their foes their doing away.
We're all in this - hey hey hey.
No one dares to talk aloud 'bout the real imminent crisis.
The gruesome leaders are counting their bombs.
Blow them straight up your arse.
There's no cover in the case of war. Come on, drop it!
Sirens - sirens in the heat.
Fighting - on your TV screen.
The secret bases are alarmed, the troops are on the alert.
The counter attack is set on foot.
Depends on a single word.
With all their foes their doing away.
And all enclosed have to die.
There's no cover in the case of war.
[Chorus:]
Nuclear war.
That's the nuclear war.
Watch out - for the news today. Fallout - over israel.
The bomb has struck in morningtime.
A shelter won't be of use.
A few survived to waste away.
let's start with a riot a riot in the streets
keep roll on broken glass
we're dressed to kill
and we're dressed to destroy
start a lighning war
total eclipse of human law
we're gonna take your children away
we're dressed up in blood
and we're dressed up in gore
now that the damage is done
fucking yourself to death
i don't wanna die in a nuclear war
we don't wanna die in a nuclear war
mechanical nighmare
a wonderfull world of technology
napalm, hydrogen bombs, biological warfare
violence means so much to me
rising doom and anarchy
you all have beend warned before
this is the price of war
let's start with a riot a riot in the streets
keep roll on broken glass
we're dressed to kill
and we're dressed to destroy
now that the damage is done
fucking yourself to death
i don't wanna die in a nuclear war
we don't wanna die in a nuclear war
mechanical nighmare
a wonderfull world of technology
napalm, hydrogen bombs, biological warfare
no for an answer
drop the bomb now push the button
i don't wanna die in a nuclear war
we don't wanna die in a nuclear war
mechanical nighmare
a wonderfull world of technology
napalm, hydrogen bombs, biological warfare
i don't wanna die in a nuclear war
we don't wanna die in a nuclear war
mechanical nighmare
a wonderfull world of technology
Nuclear war,
on the dance floor
Nuclear war
on the dance floor
Electric Six is on time
Electric lovin a sex crime
Your a pretty, pretty, pretty,pretty,pretty,pretty,pretty,pretty,pretty,
pretty,pretty,pretty,pretty,pretty girl
You can do a lot of things with that.
Nuclear War
on the dance floor
Nclear war
on the dance floor
Solo
Just look around I feel blessed
This is Earth as we know best
Heavenly I feel praised
Hold this to my dying day
I've seen killers on the streets
Bullets fired to the beat
I've seen businessmen deceive
For the power, for the money and the greed
All this pain surrounding us
All this joy inside of us
I feel hate I feel love, we've been blessed by God above
Hold me down don't let me breathe
Take it all in front of me
Rape it all and watch it bleed, come on come on
[Chorus]
Oh-oh here comes the enemy
Oh-oh I'm a walking psycho
Oh-oh bring out your armies
Oh-oh let's start a f***ing nuclear war
Ashes to ashes one day we'll all fall to dust
There'll be rain in the skies to wash away the rust
There's a war in front of me
We're all cring out for peace
A depression at its peak
And they're the ones who lead?
Am i the enemy, am I the enemy
Am i the enemy, am I the enemy?
Hold me down don't let me breathe
Take it all in front of me
Rape it all and watch it bleed, come on come on
Oh-oh here comes the enemy
Oh-oh I'm a walking psycho
Oh-oh bring out your armies
Oh-oh let's start a f***ing nuclear war
We're burning away, burning away
Losing our souls in outer space
Looking down 3000 miles away
It's getting too dark to see and I'm starting to freeze
I'm laughing at the world that I used to see
I used to see - Aaahhhhhhhh
Oh-oh here comes the enemy
Oh-oh I'm a walking psycho
Oh-oh bring out your armies
Oh-oh let's start a f***ing nuclear war
Bring out your armies...Let's end this with a nuclear war
I said a f***ing nuclear war
Oh-oh here comes the enemy
Oh-oh I'm a walking psycho
Oh-oh bring out your armies