background of, 14–15
at briefings before strike, 227–29, 237
choice of, to command strike force, 11–14, 16
confrontation with LeMay, 184
and cover names, 171, 208
at departure and takeoff of Enola Gay, 239–244
description of, 14, 67
family life of, 67, 69, 85–86, 130–31
and Lewis, 54, 76–77, 182, 208, 218, 226, 233, 244–45
at Los Alamos, 36–41, 86–87
powers of, as commander, 16, 114–15
reaction to atomic explosion, 262, 263–265
return to Tinian, after mission, 269
since 1945, 279–80, 283–84
skill of, as pilot, 184–86
and target selection, 143–47
on Tinian, 155–57, 179–82, 198–99
treatment of his men, 155, 198
at Wendover, 22, 25–29, 47, 49–50, 85–86, 130–31, 170
Tibbets, Paul, Jr., 69
Tinian, 17, 18, 81, 87, 114, 148
description of, 151–53, 160–61
509th on, 154–56, 165–66, 172, 179–82, 183
Japanese on, 151–55, 183, 187–88, 192–93
today, 283
Togo, Shigenori, 194, 195, 277
Tojo, Hideki, 18, 121
Tokyo
destruction in, 119, 193
incendiary bomb raid on, 97–99
as possible target of atomic bomb, 71
as target of Eatherly’s strike, 186–87, 188
Tokyo Rose, 65, 167–68, 187–88
Top Secret, 227, 238, 249, 256
Torpedoes, human, 72–75, 208–9, 211–12
Toyoda, Soemu, 99, 121
Toyo Industries, 20, 223
Truman, Harry S., 89, 108–110, 115, 121, 122–25, 127–29, 168, 218, 273, 277
and invasion of Japan, 140–41
in Potsdam, 177–79, 191–92, 197
swearing in, as president, 109
warnings to Japan, 128–29, 275
Twentieth Air Force, 78
Twenty-first Bomber Command, 78
Uanna, William L. “Bud,” 26, 27, 30, 52, 56, 93–94, 105–6, 198, 249
Ujina, 274, 275
United Nations, 124, 273
Uranium, 7, 8, 38–39
Uranium bomb, 72, 135, 171
van Kirk, Theodore “Dutch,” 32, 46, 47, 67, 155, 204, 224–25, 226, 236, 242
during atomic mission, 244, 255
since 1945, 281
van Pelt, James, 32
Vatican, reaction of, to atomic bomb, 273
V-E day, 127–28
Waldman, Bernard, 231
Warm Springs (Georgia), 107–8
Weather conditions, consideration of, 146–47, 206, 227, 230, 237, 276
Weather-scout planes, 227, 236, 238, 244, 252, 256
Wells, H. G., 273
Wendover (Utah), 16–17, 22–25, 27, 147–48
Wey, Ken, 186
Wilson, John, 227
Yamamoto, Isoroku, 58
Yanagita, Hiroshi, 202–4, 253, 257, 274–75
Yasuzawa, Matsuo, 117–18, 251–52, 254, 265–67, 282
Yokohama, 132
Yokoyama, Tatsuo, 57, 60, 62, 115–17, 118–19, 141–42, 199, 201, 202
after atomic explosion, 262–63
description of, 17–18
as leader, 18, 21–22
and marriage, 117, 119, 141, 189–90
prior to attack, 247, 253–54, 257
Young, Dr. Don, 196–97, 198, 224–25, 234
Zacharias, Ellis, 129–30
Zeros, Japanese, 50, 51
BY THE SAME AUTHORS:
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