U.S. Atomic Bomb Stamp
Date: 1985 - 1995 [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]
Region: North America [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|{location3}]]
Subject: Racial/Ethnic [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]
Medium: Public Art [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]
Artist: United States Postal Service
Confronting Bodies: Government of the Empire of Japan
Dates of Action: late 1994
Location: Washington D.C
Description of Artwork: 32 cent United States postage stamp, with illustration of atomic bomb explosion, and caption "Decision to drop atomic bomb saves GI lives"
The Incident: Government of the Empire of Japan protested, alleging that the A-bomb dropping at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not normal acts of war but racially motivated genocide - an obvious crock, since the victorious Allies did not exterminate the vanquished Japanese.
Results of Incident: The United States Government and the United States Postal Service kow-towed to the Japanese and withdrew the planned stamp.
Source: Multiple newspaper accounts. James P. Vichench (NY, NY) [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]]