NEW YORK — The head of a U.S. veterans group says exhibitions focusing on the damage wrought by the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki without touching on Japan's wartime atrocities are unbalanced and undesirable.
Michael Dunn, president of the Air Force Association, indicated in a recent interview that the group hasn't changed its position since it opposed an A-bomb exhibition planned at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in 1995, leading the event to be canceled.
The museum "should have a balanced presentation," Dunn, a retired air force general, said. Not showing the "atrocities that the Japanese forces put on the Allied forces did not seem to be a balanced approach."