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US museum stalls Hiroshima exhibit over nuke weapon ban push

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AP New Mexico
Last Updated : Apr 03 2018 | 1:45 PM IST

A museum in a once-secret New Mexico city that developed the atomic bomb has put an exhibit from Japan on hold because its theme of abolishing nuclear weapons.

The Los Alamos Historical Museum in Los Alamos, New Mexico, recently announced it won't be hosting a traveling exhibit organized by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum until all parties can work out their differences over the theme.

The move comes as the Los Alamos National Laboratory is competing with the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to continue production of plutonium "pits."

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First Published: Apr 03 2018 | 1:45 PM IST

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