8/6/45, the Enola Gay's pilot, Paul W. Tibbets Jr., dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. It had killed 80K people immediately
Toward the end of his life, he was unrepentant "I thought, yes, we're going to kill a lot of people, but by God we're going to save a lot of lives”

By the time the siren sounded, the first atomic bomb to be used in war had already dropped.
In a blinding flash, and with temperatures as hot as the sun, the bomb detonated. It destroyed a 5-mile radius, killing an estimated 80,000 people.
Tens of thousands more later died. China

"I knew we did the right thing because when I knew we'd be doing that I thought, yes, we're going to kill a lot of people, but by God we're going to save a lot of lives," Tibbets told the writer Studs Terkel in a 2002 interview. "We won't have to invade [Japan]."

Sweeney: As a military man,
He had a formula to deal with feelings of guilt: ...... I start thinking about the rape of Nanking, and the duplicity of them lying to our president while they were bombing Pearl Harbor. I think of all my classmates who were killed

Beser: “I can sympathize with those who were made to suffer because of them and appreciate their desire to see that these weapons are never used again, but .....in view of the events that led up to Hiroshima and Nagasaki I have no sense of guilt nor do I feel any remorse.

Beser:“Younger generations do not comprehend what was going on in 1945, the Bataan Death March, the Rape of Nanking, the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the Sacking of Manila, and all of the other more sordid Japanese deeds.....”

There wasn’t even an attempt to hit a military zone in Japan.
A war crime against another war criminal?

85% of Americans approved of dropping atomic bombs in 1945; this percentage dropped to 57% 60 years later.
Trump：”I saw Obama is in Japan Hiroshima and that’s fine. Just as long as he doesn’t apologize. It’s absolutely fine. Who cares.”