The Enola Gay has been reassembled and put on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, under the curatorship of Dr. Strangelove Dik Daso.
Whatever the justification, killing 140,000 civilians with an atomic bomb, 42 times the number that died during 911, is nothing to be celebrated. Surely an exhibit based on this event is an opportunity to demonstrate the gravity of the situation that lead to it, along with a pertinent reminder of the seriousness of weapons of mass destruction?
“The current text for the Enola Gay exhibit does not include casualty figures from Hiroshima or show any photographs of the devastation the bomb caused.
Daso told Reuters that death toll estimates varied widely and the exhibition space did not lend itself to a complicated display including details of the human cost.”