A freeper controversy waiting to happen: Enola Gay and the Death Toll

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Enola Gay Draws More Flak
Petitioners Want Atom Bomb Deaths Added to Exhibit

By Jacqueline Trescott
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 6, 2003; Page C01

A new display of the Enola Gay, the World War II plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, should include information about the number of Japanese killed by the explosion, a group of scholars, writers and activists says in a petition delivered yesterday to the director of the National Air and Space Museum.

The fully restored and reassembled B-29 Superfortress goes on display next month at the museum's new facility near Dulles International Airport.

More than 150 people have signed the petition under the banner of the Committee for a National Discussion of Nuclear History and Current Policy. Peter Kuznick, a historian at American University and the director of the Nuclear Studies Institute, said the petition was delivered to Gen. Jack Dailey, the director of the museum.

The signatories include Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, Daniel Ellsberg, psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, economist Gar Alperovitz, political activist Barry Commoner, Julian Bond, authors Kai Bird, E.L. Doctorow, Ariel Dorfman, Kurt Vonnegut and Garry Wills, historian Howard Zinn, Stanley N. Katz, director Norman Lear, sociologist Orlando Patterson and filmmaker Oliver Stone.

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