Monday, February 9, 2009

THIS IS NEWS TO MOI

Blog number 276 **** 09 February 2009

There were three shock waves from the Hiroshima weapon. The first one was a good jolt... There was, and I was quite aware of, a brilliance in the airplane ... simultaneously with that, I tasted it... I tasted that thing (the bomb) just as clear as could be.

- Colonel Paul W. Tibbets
[Pilot of the Enola Gay]

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