There is a museum that exists in Albuquerque New Mexico - the US Atomic
Museum - where the history of (nuclear) weapons is displayed. I don't
remember seeing anything about the destructive levels of the weapons nor do
I REMEMBER seeing anything about the effects of usage on Japan (there are
shells of those weapons themselves on display as well as re-entry nose cones
from various current weapons.)

Oh, there is also a weapons museum not open to the public tracing the
developmental stages of nuclear weaponry from Manhattan to about 1970 or so
(but you need a security clearance and a need to know for entry there - not
in the same building)

"Bjørnar" wrote in message
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Linda Terrell wrote:

Even if were to agree that the bombing of Hiroshima was wrong (I
don't know about today, but I know how I would have felt in 1945),
what does this have to do with the attack on the WTC? Does one wrong
justify another? The issue is that the Smithsonian's newest facility
it about aircraft history, not about the pros and cons of US military
action. The Enola Gay should be treated as other aircraft on display
without mention of the suffering and death caused by the bombings,
nor mention of the other side of the same argument.

I completely agree. The problem today is too many museum exhibits are
polticized.


The Enola Gay and what it represent is unique, it's not just
another B-29. It's not politics, or a battle of oppinions, an
unpresidented number of people died at the drop of a single, tiny bomb.

We have a responsibility to tell the story and provide the facts
whenever we can, when people come into the exhibition hall they
should be amply reminded of the horrible forces of a nuclear
weapon. To censor it out is an injustice IMO.



Regards...