Fifty years after the bombing, a Gallup poll showed that senior citizens, by a narrow margin, supported the bombing. A plaque in a memorial at the park reads: 'Let all the souls here rest in peace for we shall not repeat the evil.' The Smithsonian Institute drastically had to alter a fiftieth anniversary exhibit about the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the bomb, because veteran's groups protested that the exhibit made the Japanese look like innocent victims. Until there are no more nuclear weapons in the world, an eternal flame continues to burn at Peace Park, Hiroshima. Today, if a nuclear test occurs, the leader who ordered it can expect to be the recipient of a telegram from the mayor of Hiroshima.
