In reading the concepts for the exhibits and their responses, it seems to me that the curators of the museum wanted to give the visitors a view of the facts. While they did paint a portrait of the Japanese as victims, the complaints against the museum seemed, to me, to be pushing a pro-American view of the war.

This was an exhibit that challenged the official story, presenting painfully brutal facts that were often skipped in descriptions of the bombings, but also leaving it mainly up to the reader to decide. I feel that the opposition to the exhibit was largely due to that fact that presenting these facts are generally pushed aside or skimmed when explaining the bombings.

While there seems to be no reconciling of the two views, I am disappointed that the museum caved to the official story, as I for one was fascinated by the opposing view of the original designs. The simple description “dropped the first atomic weapon used in combat” is entirely inadequate to describe the plane that ushered in a new age of warfare and changed forever the way we view civilian casualties.

Either way, this was about both sides wanting to display the facts in a certain light, or in context