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AMOO: Was Dropping A-Bomb Right Decision?

Paul Tibbetts dropped "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, which thrust the world into the Age of Nuclear Weapons. He died today.

I remember visiting the Enola Gay Exhibit back in 1995. And I certainly recall the controversy about putting that display into context. In the end, it was just the plane, with little historical information.

Do you think dropping the bomb was the right decision? Do you think the exhibit was handled properly?

(AP photo: Paul Tibbetts, in 1945, with the B-29 Superbomber named after his mother.)



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.