Abstract
The “A-Bomb Dome” is a building that miraculously survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima in 1945.This article explores the image of this surviving building, Heidegger’s proclamation that “language is the house of Being,” and the diaries maintained by surviving physician Michihiko Hachiya to meditate on what of the human spirit survives nuclear holocaust. It is shown that the capacity for making meaning survives, and it is language in its poetic—as opposed to scientific—sensibilities, resonant with primordial silence and ambiguity, that connects us to an essential need to preserve and communicate meaning. Existentially, the way out of our predicament, and the means by which future nuclear catastrophe can be averted, is through genuinely grieving the losses inherent in the state of the modern world and in learning to heed the silence at the root of our own authentic language
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