holocaust
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Survivors honoured for their services to holocaust awareness in a series of portraits commissioned by the King were welcomed to the Palace, including 100-year-old Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and 98-year-old Helen Aronson.
From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026
In the 1950s, it was a nuclear holocaust and in the 1960s a population bomb and deforestation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025
In her new research-based what-if book “Nuclear War: A Scenario,” Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen reveals how a nuclear holocaust would play out in real time.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2024
As humans continue to encroach on our planet, we are driving a mass extinction that some experts call a "biological holocaust."
From Salon • Apr. 16, 2024
Strauss’s words created alarm over the prospect of nuclear holocaust without laying to rest the public’s anxiety about fallout.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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