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...finished another epic. Thus, in one last effort to make me an athlete, my father bought me a book that fateful summer I abandoned the racket: The Zen of Tennis. Still resting on my bookshelf, it is one of those books that never managed to enter my summer fling radar...
...rendezvous point, and the engineer was really sweating it. It was going to be nip and tuck. I went up to Sweeney and said, "We're going to be able to make one run on this target-if we're lucky." I told him to be prepared to use radar. This was in contradiction with orders we'd received that prohibited us from bombing without a visual target sight...
...were making our approach on radar and getting ready to drop when [Captain Kermit] Beahan [the bombardier] cries out, "I've got the target!" As we'd gotten over Nagasaki, Beahan had looked into the undercast and saw that it had holes in it. He synched the cross hairs of his bomb sight telescope and released the bomb...
Sergeant Joseph Stiborik Radar operator...
...Little Boy" worked much like firing a gun. A small explosive propelled a uranium "bullet" down a 6-ft. (1.8-m) barrel into a uranium core, triggering nuclear fission. The bomb never hit the ground. To maximize the damage, a radar proximity fuse in the tail detonated the bomb 1,900 ft. (580 m) above Hiroshima...