This is not your bullshit fantasy WMD. This is the real deal, hidden in plain view in a hangar in Virginia, in the area around Washington, east, west, south and north somewhat (to paraphrase former Defense Secretary Rumsfeld).
Exhibition of the Enola Gay was the object of a fierce controversy in which veterans groups objected to the direct depiction of the mass suffering and death inflicted upon Japanese civilians using this very instrument. Implictly at stake in this controversy was the American self-concept as morally superior global "good guys," effectively absolving us from the responsibility for moral and political reflection on our actions and role in the world.
When I encountered Enola Gay at the Smithsonian, there was no part of the display which directly acknowledged the Japanese civilians who had seen this plane once before.
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