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The Assault on History
Sherwin, Martin J. | May 15, 1995 issue

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On January 30, 1995 I. Michael Heyman, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, bowing to pressure from veterans' organizations and Congressional critics, announced the drastic revision of a controversial exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum, "The Last Act: The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II." Perhaps no other public controversy in recent times demonstrates so clearly how much influence the sensibilities of 1945 still have on the politics of 1995, and how fifty years of the cold war have kept the need alive for Americans to be defined by World War II and, in turn, to protect its reputation.

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HEYMAN, I. Michael; ATOMIC bomb; NUCLEAR weapons; WORLD War, 1939-1945; POLITICS & war; UNITED States
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