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Enola Gay Exhibit’s Opening Draws Protest

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From Times Wire Reports

A small group of protesters briefly disrupted the official opening of the National Air and Space Museum’s new annex at Dulles International Airport, spilling a red liquid supposed to resemble blood near the Enola Gay exhibit and throwing an object that dented the airplane.

Two men were arrested after security officers broke up the demonstration in Chantilly.

Several elderly atomic bomb survivors from Japan also expressed dismay that information on the effects of the bomb dropped by the Enola Gay on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, was not included in the exhibit.

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