peter: i am peter kuznick, professor of history at american university and director of american university's nuclear studies institute. i began our institute back in 1995. the institute was born in the midst of the controversy around the in only gay -- enola gay exhibit which was going to be held at the smithsonian institution but got canceled. this was an attempt by the smithsonian to do an honest and balanced exhibit about the decision to drop the bomb and the consequence of the atomic bombing. this was in 1995, the 50th anniversary. the smithsonian a civic got canceled. -- exhibit got canceled. the museum in hiroshima and nagasaki asked to bring some of those artifacts to american university and do an exhibit here on the 50th anniversary. that was the first time the hiroshima-nagasaki a-bomb museum did an exhibit outside japan. they have been doing it ever since. this is the 20th anniversary of our exhibit and the 70th anniversary of the actual bombing. we decided to do it again at american university. we combined artifacts from hiroshima and nagasaki with 15 fabulous hiroshima panels. th

peter: i am peter kuznick, professor of history at american university and director of american university's nuclear studies institute. i began our institute back in

i am peter kuznick, professor of history at american university and director of american university's nuclear studies institute. i began our institute back in 1995. the institute was born in the midst of the controversy around gayin only gay -- enola exhibit which was going to be held at the smithsonian institutbu

peter: i am peter kuznick, professor of history at american universind