J (1996) Hiroshima in history and memory, Cambridge University Press, pp. Rooney (2005) The Enola Gay and the Smithsonian Institution, McFarland and Company, pp. The debates escalated over controversy over how the war ended that involved more than military and political history, becoming a flash point in the so called “cultural wars”. When what the NASM intended to present was known to the public, a heated controversy developed, resulting in books, articles in historical journals and multitude of articles in the media that chronicled the debates over the proposed exhibit. The exhibit was to be called The Crossroads: the end of World War II, the atomic bomb, and the origins of the cold war. Stored outdoors in three states before taking up residence in building 20 of the Smithsonian storage yard, it had been repaired by technicians for years and restored and was moved to the Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian for an exhibit that was to be opened in May, 19952.
Tibbets, which disappeared from sight after its deadly mission. 1 The Enola Gay, the giant four engine superfortress, was named after the mother of its pilot, Colonel Paul W. At the approach of the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II in the Pacific, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum (NASM) planned an exhibit with its centerpiece, the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb at Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
