the President of the United States, Harry Truman, came forth and announced to the entire world that the U.S. had dropped an atomic bomb on a Japanese city known as Hiroshima. This bomb was called “Little Boy” and had the power of over 20,000 tons on TNT. With this great power it absolutely destroyed majority of Hiroshima and has been estimated to have killed over 130,000 people. It wasn’t but three days later that the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb called “Fat Man” on another Japanese City known
the bomb fell over Hiroshima and exploded, we saw an entire city disappear. I wrote in my log the words: ‘My God, what have we done?”. That was Captain Robert Lewis, co-pilot of the Enola Gay (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enola_Gay (2017)), the bomber plane which dropped the atomic bomb Little Boy on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August, 1945. Imagine being a pilot, steering your bomber plane over a city full of children. Imagine opening up your plane’s fuselage and dropping a bomb. Then
“As the bomb fell over Hiroshima and exploded, we saw an entire city disappear. I wrote in my log the words: ‘My God, what have we done?”. That was Captain Robert Lewis, co-pilot of the Enola Gay (“Enola Gay,” 2017, November 07), the bomber airplane which dropped the atomic bomb Little Boy on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August, 1945. Imagine being a pilot, steering your bomber airplane over a city full of children. Imagine opening up your airplane’s fuselage and dropping a bomb. Then imagine