Japan surrendered unconditionally six days after the Nagasaki bombing. “If they want to show these planes, that’s fine but we can’t help but also demand that they show the damage and the stories that take place behind these weapons,” said Terumi Tanaka, 71, a survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bomb attack, which occurred three days after Hiroshima.Ī total of 230,000 people were killed in the two attacks. 6, 1945, by the Enola Gay on Hiroshima was not included in the exhibit. Several elderly atomic bomb survivors from Japan also expressed dismay that information on the effects of the bomb dropped Aug. Siemer, 73, of Columbus, Ohio, was charged with felony destruction of property and loitering, while Gregory Wright of Hagerstown, Md., faced a misdemeanor loitering charge. Two men were arrested after security broke up the demonstration. ? A small group of protesters briefly disrupted the official opening of the National Air and Space Museum’s new annex at Dulles International Airport Monday, spilling a red liquid supposed to resemble blood near the Enola Gay exhibit and throwing an object that dented the airplane.
