The museum is devoted to the Holocaust. There were fears of a nuclear holocaust.

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Specifically, military strategists wanted to know how to inflict the most effective nuclear holocaust for the least amount of money. Adam Rogers, Wired, "How Much Is a Human Life Actually Worth?," 10 May 2020

But comparisons to the Nazis are insulting to the millions murdered & countless others who still feel the holocaust’s impact. Darrel Rowland, Cincinnati.com, "Wife of Ohio state senator compares Dr. Amy Acton statement with Nazi mandates," 23 Apr. 2020

Apocalyptic bug-in plans require emergency stores of water, but staying home for a few weeks isn’t quite nuclear holocaust: why, then, were shoppers filling entire carts with cases upon cases of Poland Spring? Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, "We Are All Irrational Panic Shoppers," 5 Mar. 2020

But the Democrats’ usual tactics are terrifyingly insufficient when they’re deployed in response to business interests and reactionary politicians opting into a holocaust in the best interests of a market. David Roth, The New Republic, "America’s Diseased Politics," 24 Mar. 2020

Between the speeches, music was played by Szymon Laks, the Polish-French composer and holocaust survivor who was head of the Auschwitz inmates’ orchestra set up by the SS to entertain the camp’s wardens. Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, "Israeli President Warns of Mounting Anti-Semitism in Europe," 29 Jan. 2020

Born to Armenian immigrants, both survivors of the Armenian holocaust, Harry made sure his entire family appreciated Armenian music and culture. courant.com, "Harry A. Egazarian," 24 Sep. 2019

Or Roger Zelazny’s Hugo Award–winning This Immortal (here published under Zelazny’s preferred title, And Call Me Conrad) describing a post–nuclear holocaust Earth populated by both prewar cultures and new, mutant ones. Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, "Science Fiction’s Wonderful Mistakes," 16 Dec. 2019

She is predeceased by Leroy her husband of 61 years, her brother Girard who died as a child in Persia, her sister Ruth Hirsch of the UK, and most of her family who perished in the holocaust. courant.com, "Gabriele Alice Dunn," 17 Oct. 2019

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