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After reading the words of the Enola Gay's co-pilot ("My God, what have we done?"), I wondered if there was an equivalent sentiment from a Japanese officer who participated in the Dec. 7, 1941, destruction at Pearl Harbor. Gloria S. Cohen Norristown...
...wasn't on the Enola Gay. I was on the Great Artiste, the instrument plane, which measured the yield, the size of the blast. We were right next to the Enola Gay when she dropped the Bomb. It was I who got the pictures. I didn't take 'em. Let's say I had a hand in 'em. But I brought the films back. They were on a 16-mm color cassette, and the only processing facility we had out there was for black-and-white movies on reels, so they couldn't process what we had, and we didn...
...best seller On the Beach. A book of drawings by atom bomb survivors, The Unforgettable Fire, had great public impact in 1982 when the first American edition appeared. At least one major poet recently turned his hand to this subject. Robert Penn Warren's New Dawn chronicles the Enola Gay's mission from the takeoff on Tinian, to the flight over the Aioi Bridge--"Color/ Of the world changes. It/ Changes like a dream." The poem ends with an account of the flyers' celebrations, and then after...
...Whatever fears the Bomb has brought, the fear of our murderous capacities is deeper. However monstrous our visions of the Bomb's future, they were only mirrors of what we did, and would probably do again, if we could get away alive. Captain Robert Lewis, co-pilot of the Enola Gay, looked down on Hiroshima and asked, "My God, what have we done?" We did what we always...
...Diego, Rosenblatt found Harold Agnew, a former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. "He had been in the instrument plane that accompanied the Enola Gay to Hiroshima, and he had also watched the first atomic chain reaction in Chicago in 1942. He was a witness to the whole progress of the atomic...