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Your story about the atom bomb brought back memories. I was on the island of Tinian at that time, in the 4th Marine Air Wing, and often watched those big B-29s take off. When the Enola Gay returned, it just about blew our tents down, since it came in so low in celebration of what the crew suspected it had done: end the war. Later we flew our C-46 transport plane to Omura, Japan. As we looked down at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it seemed as if somebody had taken a rake and cleared those cities off the earth...
Long before his son Ben appeared as the quiet lieutenant in the documentary Gunner Palace, long before a Baghdad bomb took Ben's life on Nov. 1, 2003, the elder Colgan, of Kent, Wash., was an antiwar activist, a member of the Catholic peace group Pax Christi. But Ben's independent streak led him to join the Army just out of high school. His death has made Colgan's personal pacifism surprisingly divisive. While Colgan and his wife Pat remain opposed to the war, Ben's widow Jill and other family members are equally ardent supporters. "I didn't think...
Like many of the other horrible and bloody marks that dot our country’s history, we have pushed our dropping of the atomic bomb largely out of sight and out of mind. Were it not for my copy of Richard Rhodes’ book “The Making of the Atomic Bomb” sitting on my desk, I would have fallen into the same trap...
That two-inch tall blob—an image of the mushroom cloud that symbolizes the murder of hundreds of thousands of people at Hiroshima and Nagasaki—was my only reminder of the terror that fell out of the bomb bays of Enola Gay and Bock’s Car some 60 years...
...Ironically, Iran's decision to begin conversion of yellowcake uranium to uranium hexafluoride gas this week does not bring it significantly closer to a bomb. Iranian scientists have not actually begun enriching uranium. Arms control experts predict that it will take at least until the end of the decade before Iran is in a position to produce a bomb...