pA protest song about nuclear war, #34;2 Minutes to Midnight#34; was written by Adrian Smith and Bruce Dickinson. The song attacks the commercialisation of war and how it is used to fuel the global economy (#34;The golden goose is on the loose and never out of season#34;), how rich politicians profit directly from it (#34;as the reasons for the carnage cut their meat and lick the gravy#34;) and how after a war concludes, the world is left in a far worse condition than before the war began, resulting in future wars and the development of more powerful weaponry (#34;to the tune of starving millions to make a better kind of gun#34;)./ppbr/ppThe song title references the Doomsday Clock, the symbolic clock used by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which represents a countdown to potential global catastrophe. In September 1953 the clock reached two minutes to midnight, the closest it ever got to midnight in the 20th century,[2] when the United States and Soviet Union tested H-bombs within nine months of one another.[3] The atomic clock, set at 12 minutes to midnight in 1972, regressed thereafter among US–Soviet tensions, reaching three minutes to midnight in 1984 – the year this track was released – and at that time the most dangerous clock reading since 1953.[4] According to Dickinson, the song critically addresses #34;the romance of war#34; in general rather than the Cold War in particular.[5]/ppbr/ppInteresting final fact - the song, which fundamentally criticises the atomic-weapon-age - was released 39 years to the day after the first use of the atomic bomb, on 6th August 1945, at Hiroshima./pbr/br/Support this podcast at — a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/ghostman-radio-station/exclusive-content'https://redcircle.com/ghostman-radio-station/exclusive-content/abr/br/Advertising Inquiries: a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'https://redcircle.com/brands/abr/br/Privacy Opt-Out: a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'https://redcircle.com/privacy/a