A matter of safety and security

Butterfields, the San Francisco auctioneers, who made the national press in March following the controversy over a Malcolm X archive, were front page material again in June following the sale of the only surviving parts from the atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima.

The historic red and green arming and safety plugs from Little Boy – that carry ink signatures and n…

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