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... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > war, peace and terrorism > war and society > war and media > enola gay controversy
... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > war, peace and terrorism > war and society > war and politics > enola gay controversy
... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > war, peace and terrorism > war and society > war in American culture > enola gay controversy

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enola gay controversy  

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  • In 1994 and 1995, a stream of invective was directed against the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum (NASM). The museum had planned, under the guidance of director Martin Harwit, to exhibit the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. [Source: Encyclopedia of War & American Society; Enola Gay Controversy]

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