What could it have been like to press the switch that dropped the world's first atomic bomb? What might have been going through the head of the All-American young man who had that responsibility on the Enola Gay? With interviews with people like Colonel Paul Tibbets and those who knew Curtis LeMay and Tokyo Rose, this re-creation tells of the six hours that the mission took, from take-off at Tinian to that awesome moment over Hiroshima.
"I try to imagine being in his front seat position. Can you imagine putting anyone into that position? Making any human being responsible for that? Such power over death and life? No wonder he was mixed up. No wonder he wanted to think up a plan B, or, how did he put it?—to try to reshuffle the cards. I can understand why you and he would want to imagine things differently. Imagination is needed if we are going to see other possibilities in time of war." -- From an interview with Dr. Theodore McCluskey S.J.:
"And maybe the Russian part of it isn't so scary any more, thanks to Reagan, but we're still relying on our nuclear arsenal as the final threat. You may not like it, but you can understand Israel wanting one too, and China and then India and Pakistan along with the Frogs and Brits and now North Korea and soon Iran and who knows who else? It may not be long before some Osama bin whoozits gets his terrorist hands on one." -- From an interview with Brigadier General Paul W. Tibbets (USAF Ret.)
