Hiroshima-Nagasaki: Fifty Years of Deceit and Self-Deception
AN EXHIBITION at BETHUNE COLLEGE, YORK UNIVERSITY
This
Science for Peace Exhibition protests fifty years of duplicity
by
the Allied governments over the decision to drop the the atomic bomb on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Place: Gallery #320, Bethune College, York University
Time: Tuesday, November 7 to Friday, November 17,
weekdays, 9:00 to 4:30
The Exhibitiion is of especial interest to student, scientists,
engineers and historians and comprises:
-
near-lifesize models of Little Boy and Fat Man, the grotesque names for
the two bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the World's First
Nuclear War;
- "Fifty Years of Nuclear Terror", an exhibit of 10 panels prepared by
the War Resisters League, which includes a description of the gutting of
the
Smithsonian Enola Gay exhibit under pressure from Congress and the
American Legion;
- "Fifty Years of Censorship", an exhibit of 5 panels addressing the
questions: "What is it to be a scientist or engineer after Hiroshima?"
and, "What is it to be a historian after 50 years of brazen lying,
misinformation, and partial or delayed release of documents by the Allied
governments?";
- Sample copies of books, including:
"The Decision to Drop the Bomb" by Gar Alperowitz, Knopf 1995
"Hiroshima in America: fifty years of denial" by Robert Jay Lifton and
Greg Mitchell, Grosset/Putnam 1995 ISBN 0-399-14072-7.
"It wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing". This is a
quote from Dwight Eisenhower which introduces some further background and discussion.