Atomic Mythologies

[Cal McInvale]

>--Anyway, what do ya'll think?  And who was the bombadier at Nagasaki?
>He/she (?) had the same "godlike" power...
    ^^^
You're joking, right? Or is this a case of gender-nonspecific language gone
awry? No female bomb-crew in WWII, eh?

In spite of this gaffe, I provide you with info regarding Nagasaki bomb.

Bomb Type: Plutonium Implosion Bomb
Bomb Name: Fat Man
Transport Type: B-29
Transport Name: Bock's Car
Pilot: Major Charles W. Sweeney
Weaponeer: Commander Frederick L. Ashworth, USN
Primary Target: Kokura Arsenal, N. coast of Kyushu
Seconday Target: Nagasaki
Delivered: August 9, 1945
Yield: 22 kilotons (est.)

Kokura Aresenal was too cloudy that day, else they would have received the
delivery. Nagasaki was also cloudy, but at the last minute a hole opened in
the clouds. The rest, as they say, is history.

I can't find the bombardier's name on Bock's Car. I'll keep looking...



Cal McInvale       e-mail:  godot at wolfe.net
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