The controversy surrounded the preparations for an exhibit of the Enola Gay - the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima - at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II. This dissertation seeks to place the so-called Enola Gay controversy of 1994-5 into the wider context of the culture wars in the United States.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan)-History-Bombardment, 1945-Historiography National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)Įnola Gay (Bomber)-Exhibitions-Political aspects
