The scaled-down display he said will not tell "the full story" of the atomic bomb, including the horrors of nuclear war as experienced in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. including a man she now calls an archenemy, was precipitated by Bonners. Musil, director of policy and programs for Physicians for Social Responsibility, an anti-nuclear group based in Washington, criticized the Smithsonian decision. Detweiler said the American Legion will urge Congress to go ahead with the hearings. The B-29s, Enola Gay and Bockscar, assigned. Blute is a member of that committee, which has jurisdiction over the Smithsonian Institution, supported chiefly by federal money. The Enola Gay controversy that erupted in 1994 1995 with the planned exhibition by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum of the airplane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, had its beginnings on 6th August 1945. However, it was two days in August 1945, that made the B-29 one of the most well-known aircraft in history. waves from the cockpit of the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay before he took off to drop the first atomic bomb used in combat on Hiroshima, Japan, Aug. Spokesman Rob Gray said the congressman would confer with the chairman of the Government Reform and Oversight Committee before deciding whether to continue to press for hearings on the process by which the exhibit was created. Heyman "has made a sound decision" in scuttling an exhibition he called a "politically correct diatribe." Peter Blute, the Massachusetts Republican who helped lead the congressional call for Mr. No glorification, no nonsense that they were trying to do before." Burr Bennett, a member of a group of B-29 veterans petitioning for what it calls "proper display of the Enola Gay" said the simpler display is "what we've been asking for all along. Until the doors open and we see the exhibit we're taking a wait-and-see attitude."
Jack Giese, spokesman for the Air Force Association, a group of 180,000 members, said "we are encouraged but we are extremely cautious.