Museum Won’t Sell A-Bomb Earrings
From Times Wire Reports
The National Atomic Museum at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., has decided not to sell souvenir earrings with tiny silver replicas of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan amid protest on the 54th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. “It just wasn’t worth the bad feelings,” museum director Jim Walther said. The earrings are shaped like “Little Boy,” which was dropped on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and “Fat Man,” which was dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945.
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