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Enola Gay exhibit retreat highlights uneasy Atomic Age debate
Fifty years on the Smithsonian museum display of the Enola Gay shifts from moral inquiry to a sterile artifact. The exhibition reduces the B-29 to a wall piece while a short video and a bomb statistics placard offer a restrained view of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their lasting shadow.
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Washington
Smithsonian
Japan
Air and Space Museum
Paul Tibbets
Pacific
Robert Jay Lifton
Greg Mitchell
Hiroshima
America
Oklahoma City