Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles Airport in Virginia. The B-29 that delivered the atomic bomb to Hiroshima, the Enola Gay, is on display at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Today, Part 2 will look at the museum where the Enola Gay is on display, the airfield on Tinian Island in the Northern Marianas where that aircraft departed on its flight to Japan, and Peace Park in Hiroshima that marks the spot where the bomb was detonated. Part 1, published August 25, examined Los Alamos where the A-Bomb was perfected and the Trinity Site where it was tested. He reportedly said when he witnessed the initial test at Trinity: ‘We knew the world would not be the same. Robert Oppenheimer known as the ‘father’ of the A-Bomb. Here, in this quiet ‘peace park,’ I found my mind returning to those haunting words spoken by J. The dome seen in the center of this picture–just above my left shoulder–is where the first chapter in a yet unfinished account of ‘the use of nuclear weapons in warfare’ was written on August of 1945. Mills writes: “My visits to the key sites where the A-Bomb was perfected at Los Alamos to the place, half-way around the world, where it was first deployed in warfare, has been, for me, a sobering journey.
