American historians who manufactured the enola gay exhibit

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The fact that there had been 30 years of historiographic debate and development…was irrelevant….

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'They feel you must obviously be an anti-American evil person even to debate the legitimacy of dropping the bomb…. 'A lot of people in this country don't want the decision to drop the bomb debated,' he said. WASHINGTON – Sitting in his book-lined office at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, Michael Neufeld talks bitterly about his role as the much-maligned curator of the most infamous museum exhibition never mounted.

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