Late last summer, the American Legion and right-wing congressmen started to pressure the Smithsonian to change the script. foot exhibit with a 600-page script.īut veterans’ organizations led by the American Legion have scuttled the project. decision to drop nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Smithsonian commissioned a ten-year, $1 million renovation of the Enola Gay – the B-29 that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima – which it planned to put on display as part of a 10,000 sq. IN MAY, THE Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., planned to unveil a major exhibition entitled “The Last Act: The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II.” Smithsonian Exhibit of the Enola Gay: The Incineration of History | Solidarity Smithsonian Exhibit of the Enola Gay: The Incineration of History - Christopher Phelps
