I found this interesting:
‘After the war, Fuchida wrote extensively of his adventures, then converted to Christianity and became a Protestant minister, preaching in America, mostly to Japanese-Americans.’
I think Kruschev also converted.
I read that the creator of the Czar Bomba, is that what it was called, knew that after a certain amount of plutonium, the explosion would be no greater. I forget his reasoning.
Anybody know anything about that?
Can you make a bomb that could engulf the world if it had enough plutonium in it?
I know when they tested the hydrogen bomb at sea and the explosion kept going on, some scientists were afraid the earth’s atmosphere would catch fire and that would be the end of life on Earth.
Tebbets is a very distant cousin. It is interesting to see the discussions on the Warfield family research bulletin boards. When he was alive, I’d hear about occasional appearances he would make.
Indeed.
http://www.legacy.com/ns/paul-tibbets-obituary/97120088yu
If you choose the expanded obit you find this:
Tibbets had requested no funeral and no headstone, fearing it would provide his detractors with a place to protest, Newhouse said.
Wise man. I wonder if they make them like that today?
Met Paul Tibbets at an air show at Lunken Field in Cincinnati. It was a book signing for the 2004 Restoration Edition of his book Enola Gay. It was signed 9/11/2004.
It should be noted that even in his old age, with many infirmities, Brigadier General Tibbets would still make appearances at the The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History (formerly named National Atomic Museum) on the grounds of the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque.
When he would do so, the admiring crowd of thousands would be SRO, listening to every word.
“The documentary video, “Enola Gay: The First Atomic Mission,” made by the Greenwich Workshop of Shelton, Conn., has been seen by more than 1.5 million people at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C., but has never aired on an American network.”
“One network official told me they did not want to offend their Japanese stockholders by airing it,” Hicks said. “However, it has been broadcast on Japanese television.”
God help me, but I loathe and despise the liberal left in our country at all levels in every nook and cranny with a white hot hatred.