"Little Boy"

Been thinking today and looking at some memorial websites regarding the Atomic Bomb that was dropped 60 years ago tomorrow (August 6, 1945) on Hiroshima, Japan. No matter which side of the issue of the bomb's usage you fall on, you cannot deny that our world has definitely lived in the shadow of that cloud ever since...

from the A-BOMB WWW Museum

"A bright light filled the plane," wrote Lt. Col. Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb. "We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud...boiling up, mushrooming." For a moment, no one spoke. Then everyone was talking. "Look at that! Look at that! Look at that!" exclaimed the co-pilot, Robert Lewis, pounding on Tibbets's shoulder. Lewis said he could taste atomic fission; it tasted like lead. Then he turned away to write in his journal. "My God," he asked himself, "what have we done?"