From Hiroshima to dystopia: Why it’s essential to keep imagining the end of the world

Stories will always remind us that fascism and nuclear catastrophe are just a few steps away from us“Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.”- Viktor E. Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivorIt’s been 81 years to this day that the world saw destruction to the extent it hadn’t seen before. Rather, they heard it from afar as Enolay Gay dropped Little Boy (world’s first atomic bomb made of uranium) on Hiroshima, Japan. The ones who bore the brunt of it did not live to tell the tale. Some did, but that existence as history recorded them was “more painful than death”.The next one would be Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9th. That was a plutonium bomb named Fat Man, and this atomic bomb was 40% more powerful than the