Hiroshima bomber goes on show, without pesky "human' details
The Enola Gay - a B-29 Superfortress - unleashed an atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy," on the Japanese port city of Hiroshima, killing more than 140,000 people and leaving tens of thousands disfigured and suffering from lingering radiation illness.
Now, the refurbished aircraft is going on display at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum.
The current text for the Enola Gay exhibit does not include casualty figures from Hiroshima or show any photographs of the devastation the bomb caused.
Dik Daso, curator of the aeronautics division of the museum, told Reuters that death toll estimates varied widely and the exhibition space did not lend itself to a complicated display including details of the human cost.
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