Daddy, what did you do in the nuclear war?

This poster is a reappropriation of a British First World War recruitment poster 'Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?' by Savile Lumley. Depicts a father sitting in an armchair at home looking at the viewer with a pensive look across his face. His son seemingly unperturbed by the hump on his back and the stunted right arm - plays with toys soldiers below him on the carpet. While his daughter - similarly unaffected by her pig-like nose and third leg - sits on his knee, pointing to a page in her book and asking what he did in the nuclear war. Unlike the original poster, this adaptation features a picture in the little girl's book of the unmistakable mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion with a large red cross through it - itself a representation of another poster by the artists, 'Hiroshima Day anti-uranium rally' [ARTV07370]. The original First World War poster extolls the heroicism of involvement during the Great War and the pride one's family would have. On the other hand, the man's children in Robertson's poster are victims of radiation poisoning and act as a reminder of the horrors of nuclear war.