Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National capital Area John Steinbach, Secretary & Acting Chair,
Yours for A World without Nuclear Weapons, The Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee stands ready to help coordinate and implement a campaign to stop the Enola Gay exhibit. Current plans call for the exhibit's opening on December 15, 2003. The Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee reiterates our uncompromising opposition to any exhibit of the Enola Gay which does not include a complete exhibit and examination of the consequences of the Hiroshima bombing and a discussion about the legality, ethics and morality of possessing and using nuclear weapons.Īs before, we pledge to organize a program of resistance, including non-violent civil disobedience, education and protests to prevent the exhibit.
The Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee pledges to do everything within its power to prevent this outrage and we ask for your full support."(I have pasted in the full text of her speech below) Organizing is now underway to block these plans through public education and civil disobedience. This callous action represents another attempt to justify the atomic bombings and the pursuit of nuclear supremacy. Government has announced plans in 1995 to publicly display the "Enola Gay," the B-29 bomber used to destroy the city of Hiroshima. To our knowledge our late Chair, Louise Franklin-Ramirez, addressing the Plenary of the 1993 World Conference Against Atomic & Hydrogen Bombs was the first person to publically condemn plans to memorialize this hideous symbol of mass murder when she said "The U.S. The Hiroshima/Nagasaki Committee condemns this outrageous exhibit. Survivors challenge Smithsonian's Enola Gay exhibit