The Enola Gay Fiasco: History, Politics, and the Museum

摘要

To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War Ⅱ, the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum (NASM) had planned to open an exhibition centering on the Enola Gay, the bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. During its many years of preparation, the exhibit project became so controversial that the Smithsonian canceled it on 30 January 1995. In June of that year, the NASM opened another version of the exhibit, sharply reduced in size and radically expurgated in content.