US remembers top-secret ‘Manhattan Project’ at special parks. Japanese nationalists say they glorify war crimes

Japanese nationalists are demanding that displays at national parks in the United States commemorating the development of the first atomic weapons state that the subsequent attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were war crimes.

A number of facilities that make up the Manhattan Project National Historical Park are already open to the public, including museums and tours of locations in the Tennessee town of Oak Ridge, Los Alamos in New Mexico and Hanford in Washington state.

The facilities are being expanded and “interpretative themes” are being developed, said Kris Kirby, superintendent of the park.

“We will be discussing and developing exhibits based on these interpretative themes as we move forward, but we have not yet started those discussions so I cannot speak to the details,” she said.

“What we want to do is to make sure that we provide multiple and broad perspectives and not draw firm conclusions, but to leave those conclusions to our visitors, giving them sovereignty of thought.”

Plans on the development of the displays are expected to start next year, with exhibits being added to the venues “over the next few years, depending on funding”, Kirby said.