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Minutes to Midnight (song)
''Minutes to Midnight'' is the fourth track on the 1984 album ''Red Sails in the Sunset'' by Australian music group Midnight Oil. The song was written by band members Peter Garrett and Jim Moginie.
The title and lyrics of the song allude to the Doomsday Clock, the Cold War-era symbolic clockface maintained by the Board of Directors of the ''Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists'', serving as a barometer for the likelihood of nuclear war (or more generally "catastrophic destruction"). The threat of a nuclear confrontation was a pertinent subject at the time the song was written, and the "three minutes" to midnight to which the lyrics allude was the real-life setting in 1984, the closest to midnight the clock had been set since 1953, and a setting which has since never been surpassed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 year=2007 )〕
The lyrics warn of escalation in the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union ("''ICBMs, SS-20s / they lie so dormant, they got so many''"), and allude to both H.G. Wells and heralded Australian racehorse Phar Lap.
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