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• U.S. must face truth about atomic bombings

  - 2005-08-07

  Sixty years ago Saturday, an atomic bomb was dropped without warning on the center of the Japanese city of Hiroshima. One hundred and forty thousand people were killed, more than 95 percent of them women and children and other noncombatants. At least half of the victims died of radiation poisoning...

  Tags: democracy, exhibit, Government, Japan, SECURITY, Smithsonian Institution, SOFTWARE, U.S.

• Enola Gay and the Court of History

  - 2005-01-01

  ENOLA GAY AND THE COURT OF HISTORY, Robert P. Newman, Peter Lang Publishing, New York, 2004, 201 pages, $24.95. Show me where someone stood on the nuclear-freeze movement in 1985, and 9 times out of 10, I will show you where they stand on the bombing of Hiroshima in...

  Tags: bomb, Japan, Litigation, Smithsonian Institution, Transportation

• Apologies for atrocities: commemorating the 50th anniversary of World War II's end in the United States and Japan.

  - 2004-06-01

  The aftermath of the recent terrorist attack on Washington, D.C. and New York demonstrated the heroism of fire fighters, police officers, emergency medical personnel as well as volunteer workers. The tragedy also revealed how the imagery of World War II as well as the racial representation...

  Tags: Asia, Bernstein, CBS Corp., exhibition, Government, Japan, media, memory, Minister, Smithsonian Institution, U.S., women

• Restored Enola Gay unveiled

  - 2003-08-19

  DULLES, Va. -- The Smithsonian Institution unveiled a restored Enola Gay on Monday, making the B-29 bomber that helped end World War II the centerpiece of the new annex to the Air and Space Museum. The restoration, the result of 300,000 hours of work over nearly 20 years,...

  Tags: aircraft, bomb, exhibit, Japan, Manufacturing, museum, Smithsonian Institution

• Along the Silk Road.(Book Review) (book review)

  - 2003-03-22

  Edited by Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis. Arthur R. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, in association with the Silk Road Project, Inc., and the University of Washington Press. Asian Art and Culture Series no. 6. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. 144 pp, index. Soft cover. ISBN 295-98182-2. ...

  Tags: China, essay, Japan, Smithsonian Institution, University of Washington

• Kumataro Ito, Japanese Artist on Board the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries Steamer Albatross During the Philippine Expedition, 1907-1910

  - 1999-09-22

  Introduction The U.S. Bureau of Fisheries Steamer Albatross, commissioned in 1882, was probably the first large vessel built by any country specifically for marine research(1). In 1907, by direction of President Theodore Roosevelt(2), it undertook its longest assignment: a 2 1/2-year cruise to explore the fishery resources of the...

  Tags: Bean, board, Bull, Bulletin, BUREAU, HARDWARE, Hawaiian, Japan, M., Schultz, Semiconductor Industry Association, Semiconductors, sketch, Smithsonian Institution, species, U.S.

• Fallout: A Historian Reflects on America's Half-Century Encounter with Nuclear Weapons. (book reviews)

  - 1998-07-13

  By Paul Boyer. Ohio State. 268 pp. Paper $17.95. India and Pakistan have the bomb now, and the cheering crowds in New Delhi and Islamabad have turned out to affirm that it is a good thing, a necessity, a rite of passage into national...

  Tags: Japan, legend, Smithsonian Institution

• Hiroshima's Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy. (book reviews)

  - 1998-07-13

  Edited by Kai Bird and Lawrence Lifschultz. Pamphleteer's Press. 584 pp. Paper $25. India and Pakistan have the bomb now, and the cheering crowds in New Delhi and Islamabad have turned out to affirm that it is a good thing, a necessity, a...

  Tags: Japan, legend, Smithsonian Institution

• A hole in history: America suppresses the truth about Hiroshima - Cover Story

  - 1995-08-01

  In the past year, I've found myself near the center of the struggle over the Smithsonian exhibit commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the atomic attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It has never been easy for Americans to reconcile dropping the bomb with a sense of ourselves as a decent people....

  Tags: bomb, exhibit, footage, Japan, NETWORKING, Smithsonian Institution, TVs

• The Smithsonian and the Enola Gay

  - 1995-06-22

  Not since 1855 has the Smithsonian been riven by a controversy to equal that precipitated by the proposed Enola Gay exhibit. The issue then was whether the Smithsonian should be the national library, as the librarian Charles Coffin Jewett wanted, or a research institute, as Secretary Joseph Henry preferred. Henry...

  Tags: American Chemical Society, exhibit, Japan, museum, secretary, Smithsonian Institution