"Christmas at Ground Zero" is an original song by "Weird Al" Yankovic, the tenth and final track on his 1986 album, Polka Party!

Due to the new associations of the title, Yankovic's song received far-reduced airplay since 2001,[1][7][8] but continues to appear in novelty programming such as the Dr. Demento show.

[9] Yankovic later said: The sad part is, I can’t really play the song live anymore because too many people misunderstand the connotations of Ground Zero.

The video is a montage of old film, television, and news footage, including a montage from the civil defense film for children, Duck and Cover, and a pre-presidential Ronald Reagan, capped off with a live-action scene of Yankovic and some carolers wearing gas masks, singing with rubble around them.

[12] Yankovic stated that the record label did not want to pay for this video to be made, due to associating a nuclear disaster with the holidays.

Julio Diaz of the Pensacola News Journal wrote "While 'Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer' got old decades ago, this is one musical dose of sick holiday humor that hasn't lost its novelty.