US museum stalls Hiroshima exhibit over nuke weapon ban push

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Russell Contreras and Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press
Updated 11:37 am, Tuesday, April 3, 2018



A museum in Los Alamos, New Mexico — a once-secret New Mexico city that developed the atomic bomb which help end World War II — has put an exhibit from Japan on hold because of its theme of abolishing nuclear weapons.

The Los Alamos Historical Museum confirmed Monday that it will not host a traveling exhibit organized by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum until all parties can work out their differences over the theme.

The exhibit, which features articles of clothing, exposed plates, and other personal items from victims, aims to draw attention to the horrors of the bombs that destroyed both cities.

Heather McClenahan, executive director of the Los Alamos Historical Museum, said the museum's board of directors felt uncomfortable about the exhibit's call to abolish nuclear bombs. The New Mexico city is still home to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the nation's premier nuclear weapons research centers.

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[sinkingfeeling]

1. How could any human being be 'uncomfortable' about a call to banish nukes?

[heaven05]

2. no lie

they are terrible weapons....

[MosheFeingold]

3. Well because

Evil loons in North Korea, Iran, Russia, Pakistan, and perhaps China would promptly cause us to cease to exist as a country because we could not respond in kind.

The genie is out of the bottle. For good or bad, it can't be put back in.

[LanternWaste]

4. No one is arguing otherwise.

"The genie is out of the bottle. For good or bad, it can't be put back in..."

No one is arguing otherwise. I think the argument being made is that the negative consequences should be illustrated as well as the rationalizations humans make to continue their proliferation.

[burrowowl]

5. They are wrong not to allow the exhibit

It would be great if the museum could eventually show the abolishment of nuclear weapons.