Enola Gay exhibition begins amid protests

Enola Gay exhibition begins amid protests

WASHINGTON, United States - Visitors look at the fully reassembled Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II, at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington on Dec. 15. The institution opened the exhibition, which was criticized for not mentioning the casualties and destruction caused by the bomb.

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