How to Survive a Nuclear War: The York Experiment

Re:How to Survive a Nuclear War: The York Experiment by nivertech on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @04:53AM (#18389636)

Is there a connection between:

    "When The Wind Blows"

and

    "When Shit Hit The Fan" (SHTF)
?

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Re:How to Survive a Nuclear War: The York Experiment by andyjohnson0 on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @05:09AM (#18389705)

When the Wind Blows is a allusion to the children's nursery thyme "Rock-a-bye Baby" [1]:

    Rock-a-bye baby
    On the tree tops,
    When the wind blows,
    The cradle will rock
    When the bough breaks,
    The cradle will fall,
    and down will come Baby,
    Cradle and all.

In the context of Brigg's book/film, its seems clear that the bough (tree branch) that breaks is the disaster of nuclear war and the cradle/baby is us/civilisation falling down. I guess that a child-like reference emphasises the horror of the subject by way of contrast.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock-a-bye_Baby

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