Atomic Energy

The night of August 5, 1945 was hot and humid on the huge military airfield in the remote Marianas of the Western Pacific.  A steady moisture laden trade wind was blowing from the East as a crew of skilled technicians worked feverishly, but with extreme care and precision on a huge sleek new B-29 bomber of the Twentieth Air Force.  In the glare of the floodlights, the name “Enola Gay” could be plainly discerned on the side of the fuselage and in its cavernous bomb bays a very peculiar device...