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    Hiroshima at 75: bitter row persists over US decision to drop the bomb

    Historians and military differ on whether 1945 bombing ended the war and saved countless lives – or was an unconscionable act of brutality
    by Julian Borger in Washington Aug 05, 2020 5 minutes
    The Enola Gay lands at the Tinian airbase in the Mariana Islands after the bombing of Hiroshima. Did the B-29 Superfortress bomber herald a new age of nuclear terror? Photograph: US air force/Reuters

    Seventy-five years after it dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the Enola Gay stands, restored and gleaming, as a museum exhibit close to Washington’s Dulles airport.

    It was not always so well looked after. For decades after the war, the B-29 Superfortress bomber was left to rot. It was disassembled, its pieces were scattered, birds nested in its engines, and someone smashed its gun turret.

    Behind the neglect lay a deep national ambivalence about what it represented, a quandary which endures today: was this the aircraft that finally ended the second world war, saving hundreds of thousands of lives – or the instrument of the mass killing of civilians, which heralded a new age of nuclear terror?

    When the Enola Gay was part restored and plans were made

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