America's "terrible thing"
Boston Globe
by James Carroll
08/02/05
In the United States of America, a terrible thing shapes our relationship to the world, but we do not admit it, not even on its unhappy anniversary. Sixty years ago this week, American B-29s named Enola Gay and Bock's Car dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities. The men responsible insisted, in the face of shocking devastation, that the bombs were not so terrible...
http://tinyurl.com/a86fr
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by James Carroll
08/02/05
In the United States of America, a terrible thing shapes our relationship to the world, but we do not admit it, not even on its unhappy anniversary. Sixty years ago this week, American B-29s named Enola Gay and Bock's Car dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities. The men responsible insisted, in the face of shocking devastation, that the bombs were not so terrible...
http://tinyurl.com/a86fr
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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