Research Catalog

Title

Judgment at the Smithsonian / edited by Philip Nobile ; Smithsonian script by the curators at the National Air and Space Museum ; afterword by Barton J. Bernstein.

Publication

New York : Marlowe & Co., [1995].

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Details

Additional Authors

• Nobile, Philip
• National Air and Space Museum

Description

xcvii, 270 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Alternative Title

• Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki : judgment at the Smithsonian
• Banned history : the uncensored script of the Smithsonian's 50th anniversary exhibit of the Enola Gay

Subject

• Smithsonian Institution
• Enola Gay (Bomber) > Exhibitions > Political aspects
• National Air and Space Museum > Exhibitions > Political aspects
• 1939-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities
• Atomic bomb > United States > Moral and ethical aspects
• Exhibitions > Washington (D.C.)
• World War, 1939-1945 > Japan > Hiroshima-shi
• World War, 1939-1945 > Japan > Nagasaki-shi
• Atomic bomb > Moral and ethical aspects
• United States > Military policy > Moral and ethical aspects
• Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945
• Nagasaki-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945
• Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945 > Exhibitions
• Nagasaki-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945 > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction. On the steps of the Smithsonian : Hiroshima denial in America's attic / by Philip Nobile -- The crossroads : the end of World War II, the atomic bomb and the origins of the Cold War / by the curators of the National Air and Space Museum -- Afterword. The struggle over history : defining the Hiroshima narrative / by Barton J. Bernstein.

ISBN

• 1569248419 (pbk.)
• 1569248419

LCCN

^^^95034445^

OCLC

• 32856425
• SCSB-12414239

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library