No more Hiroshimas.Chantilly, Virginia Chantilly is an unincorporated community located in western Fairfax County and southeastern Loudoun County of Northern Virginia. Recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census designated place (CDP), the community population was 41,041 as of the 2000 census. Demonstrators gathered at the Smithsonian's new Steven F. Udvax-Hazy Center at Dulles Airport on December 15 to protest the display of the Enola Gay Enola Gay B-52 that dropped the Hiroshima A-bomb. [U.S. Hist.: WB, W:405] See : Destruction , the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb atomic bomb or A-bomb, weapon deriving its explosive force from the release of atomic energy through the fission (splitting) of heavy nuclei (see nuclear energy). The first atomic bomb was produced at the Los Alamos, N.Mex. . The new display does not mention the loss of human life in Hiroshima. Members of the Japanese Confederation of Atomic, Nuclear, and Hydrogen Bomb Sufferers spoke at the demonstration. They asked the U.S. government and the Smithsonian Institution to include figures and photographs of Japanese casualties in the exhibit. They brought with them 25,000 Japanese signatures against the display. People from peace and justice groups in the Washington, D.C., area also joined in the protest. For further information, call the American Friends Service Committee The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) affiliated organization which works for social justice, peace and reconciliation, abolition of the death penalty, and human rights, and provides humanitarian relief. at (617) 661-6130. |
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