They plan to present a petition of grievance to Smithsonian officials. The survivors say they strongly object to the way the Enola Gay is being exhibited - 'without mention of the human suffering caused by the bomb it dropped in the city of Hiroshima,' as they said in a press release. In anticipation of that event, several delegations of atomic bomb survivors were arriving in the Washington area on Thursday.
Udvar-Hazy Center - an annex of the Air and Space Museum - is scheduled to open on Monday in a huge new building near Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va. The Smithsonian Institution's new Steven F. The Japanese will be joined by Americans who strongly oppose the Bush administration's nuclear policies. atomic bomb attack on Japan plan to protest the Smithsonian Institution's new aircraft museum in suburban Virginia, because the exhibit includes the Enola Gay - the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.
