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Reserve your free tickets on Eventbrite.īrett’s exhibition “ Opposing Forces: Photographs of Abandoned Nuclear Missile Bases” will be on display at the Diefenbunker from August 2 – September 9, 2018. For the rest of his life, Ferrell kept the receipt in his wallet and. Ferrell kept hold of this historical document and had crew members on the Tinian sign it. You’ll also be the first to hear about his intriguing Cold War journey with his photographs from Santa Barbara, California to the Diefenbunker in Ottawa. UNITED STATES MARCH 07: A replica of Little Boy, the atomic bomb that was dropped from the B-29 Enola Gay aeroplane on to Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. One: Bye Bye Blackbirds – Cold War Relics in the Californian Desert Opposing Forces Exhibition Launch and Artist Talk | Thursday August 2, 7-9pmĬome meet the artist, Brett Leigh Dicks, and learn about his collection of photographs on display in the Diefenbunker’s Vault. Prologue: Destination Ottawa (via Tucson and Calexico) For more information visit Follow Brett Leigh Dick’s journey to the Diefenbunker: Udvar-Hazy Center, the huge hangar-like building would display not only the complete Enola Gay, but 200 other aircraft and 135 spacecraft. The Historic Wendover Airfield now operates a museum at the former base as well as conducting tours of the airfield. Three days later, the B-29 Bockscar dropped the Fat Man plutonium bomb on Nagasaki. After undergoing extensive training at Wendover Air Field with prototype bombs, at 8:15 am on August 6, the Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy uranium bomb over Hiroshima, Japan.