Word: hiroshimas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Others would try to outlast it, or at least outwit it, through cryonics, say (though it may be no coincidence that their most famous example is said to be Walt Disney). And others talk blithely of Dr. Kevorkian or 100,000 dead in Hiroshima, as if to avoid its more immediate implications for us. But the fact remains: this article will someday be posthumous. That face I touch will, in the not too distant future, be out of reach. Tibetan Buddhists meditate upon images of dancing skulls, and ancient Egyptians, during feasts, had skeletons brought to their tables...
August 6, 1945 Uranium bomb 'Little Boy"dropped on Hiroshima. 80,000 are killed and 42square miles are flattened...
...Smithsonian's Hiroshima commemoration draws fire...
...hell, and its commemoration, while less lethal, can be just as bedeviling. For the past eight years, technicians at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum have been meticulously restoring the Enola Gay, the B-29 that in 1945 dropped the first atom bomb, destroying Hiroshima and leading to the end of World War II. An exhibit centered on the front section of the plane's fuselage is scheduled for next year's 50th anniversary of the bombing. But Air Force veterans have seen the 559-page proposal for the show. And they are feeling nuked...
...first draft there were 49 photos of Japanese casualties, against only three photos of American casualties. By his count there were four pages of text on Japanese atrocities, while there were 79 pages devoted to Japanese casualties and the civilian suffering, from not only the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki but also conventional B-29 bombing. The Committee for the Restoration and Display of the Enola Gay now has 9,000 signatures of protest. The Air Force Association claims the proposed exhibition is "a slap in the face to all Americans who fought in World War II" and "treats...