![]() It was produced in cooperation with the two Japanese cities, and the mayor of Hiroshima is set to speak at today's opening. ![]() "We must never forget that nuclear weapons are the fruits of war."Īmerican University's Nuclear History Institute planned the exhibit for more than a year. "The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima created enormous suffering at the time and it continues to cause suffering today in those who were exposed," the exhibit text says. In the American University exhibit, 50 panels offer a history of Japanese aggression, images of the cities, recollections of the survivors _ called Hibakusha _ and the hope that nuclear weapons have been used for the last time. Several of the items were included in an early script for the Enola Gay display until objections from military veterans and Congress forced the Smithsonian to back off. The exhibit includes 25 artifacts from the two Japanese cities destroyed by the bombs dropped by the United States. It is there, in a 1,900-square-foot converted board room, that the private university's exhibit, Constructing a Peaceful World: Beyond Hiroshima and Nagasaki begins its three-week run today.
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