Word: holocaust
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Since the Vietnam debacle, Chomsky has remained in the spotlight. Two years ago he drew scathing criticism for writing the preface to a book that essentially denied the existence of the Holocaust. The resulting scandal obscured the fact the Chomsky disagreed with the book's thesis: rather, like a modern day John Stuart Mill, he felt he was affirming the author's right to express himself freely. But even those who grasped those motives found it abhorrent that Chomsky could associate himself at all with such repugnant revisionism...
...might happen at any time. And, say the "thinkables," we must prepare for survival in the aftermath of an atomic battle. Hence, the twin goals of "thinkable" planning are to devise ways to "limit" nuclear war once it starts, and to provide for civil defense in anticipation of the holocaust...
Though not practicing my religion, I could never forget that 13 members of my family had died in Nazi concentration camps. I had no stomach for encouraging another Holocaust by well-intentioned policies that might get out of control. Yet, like Nixon, I had to subordinate my emotional preferences to my perception of the national interest. Given the historical suspicions toward my religion, I had a special obligation to do so. Occasionally it proved painful. But Israel's security could be preserved only by anchoring it to a strategic interest of the U.S., not to the sentiments of individuals...
...weapons and the eventual abolition of all nuclear arms. Similar to statements circulated by local secular groups such as the Coalition for a Nuclear Arms Freeze, it reads in part, "In the name of God, let us speak out now, let our silences once again make us accomplices to holocaust, this one threatening the very existence of mankind...
More than 200 musicians united in the fun draining concert to express through music their horror at threat of nuclear holocaust, organizer Katie Houlahan said yesterday...