80 years since Hiroshima, can the world's luck hold?

80 years since Hiroshima, can the world's luck hold?

As was his wont on long flights, Col. Paul Tibbets, piloting a B-29, puff ed on his pipe as, 80 years ago Wednesday, he transported humanity from one geopolitical era to another. His radio operator was watching for an "abort"…

80 years since Hiroshima. How much longer can the world’s luck hold?

As was his wont on long flights, Col. Paul Tibbets, piloting a B-29, puffed on his pipe as, 80 years ago Wednesday, he transported humanity from one geopolitical era to another. His radio operator was watching for an “abort” signal…

Distinguished Service in Death - Catholic Insight

Eighty years ago, Paul Tibbets was the pilot who flew the B-52, the ‘Enola Gay’ – named after his own mother – which dropped the nuclear bomb over Hiroshima. Under his guidance, the superfortress bomber took off in the middle of the night from the American air force base in Tinian, taking six hours to reach Japan. At 8:15  in the morning, the bomb, named ‘Little Boy’, was let go, and detonated just above the city, unleashing a nuclear inferno th…