The Genocide Bomb

Abstract

Two unprecedented events in the early 1940s have changed the course of human history: the atomic bomb and the Holocaust. Both were mutations, yet the Holocaust is the greater and more likely peril to humankind. Its implications and consequences are enormous. It has changed forever the relationship of man to man; it has changed the relationship of Gentile to Jew. It introduced the specter of mass national insanity; it elevated genocide to an ideology, an aim, a policy, and not a consequence or an instrument of policy. It has confirmed that man is neither good nor bad but both good and bad, depending on the circumstances. Most important of all, by example it introduced the idea that the fastest way to restructure, to remake, to “beautify” the human race is through killing, through death factories.