Article: Children's Peace Statue can't find a home.(Los Alamos, New Mexico rejects statue)

Los Alamos County didn't give peace a chance.

The New Mexico birthplace of the atomic bomb, home of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, nearly had a peace garden. And 48,000 children nearly had a place for their Children's Peace Statue.

The statue - actually a cast-bronze column sprouting aluminum flowers in a shape approximating a globe - was planned as a sister statue to the Genbaku No Ko Zo (Monument for A-Bombed Children) in Hiroshima, Japan. Children in the United States raised $28,000 for the project, a dollar at a time. But a tie vote Feb. 13 by the Los Alamos County Council crushed the dream - and earned the council international publicity.

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