In this hardhitting thoroughly researched and crisply argued book awardwinning historian Robert P. Newman offers a fresh perspective on the dispute over President Trumans decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan in World War II. Newmans argument centers on the controversy that erupted around the National Air and Space Museums NASM exhibit of Enola Gay in 1995. Newman explores the tremendous challenges that NASM faced when trying to construct a narrative that would satisfy American veterans and the Japanese as well as accurately reflect the current historical research on both the period and the bomb. His fullscale investigation of the historical dispute results in a compelling story of how and why our views about the bombing of Japan have evolved since its occurrence. Enola Gay and the Court of History is compulsory reading for all those interested in the history of the Pacific war the morality of war and the failed NASM exhibition. The book offers the final word on the debate over Trumans decision to drop the bomb.