Fall out: Smithsonian Institution. (Hiroshima, Japan, bombing exhibition)(Arts, Books and Sport)

Economist (US), The, February, 1995

The Smithsonian Institution has elected to cancel its planned exhibition that would commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. The exhibition is being canceled because of political pressure and protests by former military personnel.

IN THE end, the controversy proved too hot for the Smithsonian to handle. The Institution has decided to scrap the exhibition that was to have marked the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6th 1945. Instead, the National Air and Space Museum in Washington will limit itself to showing the fuselage of the "Enola Gay", the B-29 that dropped the atom bomb, and a video of its crew.

The ill-fated exhibition, which was due to open in May, had been planned to analyse the bombing of Japan and its legacy....

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