Atomic Holocaust, Nazi Holocaust:.

Abstract

Imagine that it is early August in the year 2045. Imagine the scene: the Mall in Washington, DC. Imagine a gala if somber occasion, the opening of a new national museum. Imagine that the president of the United States, many other heads of state, and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of survivors of the catastrophe have gathered. The museum's motto is a line from the writings of one of the foremost writer-survivors: “For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.” Imagine the next day's New York Times: “Atomic Holocaust Museum Hailed as Sacred Debt to Dead.” The article begins: “100 years after the furnaces of Hiroshima and Nagasaki devoured their last victims, descendants of survivors and world leaders gathered beneath a bleak, disconsolate sky today to dedicate a museum chronicling man's descent into darkness and the indifference to evil that marked the era. The United States Atomic Holocaust Museum was hailed not as the triumph of the human spirit over brutality or survival over genocide, but as a debt to the dead, a warning to future generations of the cost of detachment.”