Richard Rhodes emerged as one of the major nonfiction artists of this age with The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), his sprawling, 886-page, Pulitzer Prize-winning saga that chronicles what he descri...
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Paul Tibbets, who etched his mother's name — Enola Gay — into history on the nose of the B-29 bomber he flew to drop the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, died Thursday after six decades of s...
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When Paul Tibbets enlisted in the Army Air Corps, nuclear fission had not even been discovered, but it would fall upon him to unleash its staggering power in war for the first time.If dropping the ...
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Wednesday 16thIt's still February …. On the positive side of things, the fashion fascist brigade has finally cleared out of town, replaced by the equally-lovely-to-look-at-but- ...
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Wednesday 16thIt's still February …. On the positive side of things, the fashion fascist brigade has finally cleared out of town, replaced by the equally-lovely-to-look-at-but- ...
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Richard (Lee) Rhodes
Pilot of plane that dropped A-bomb dies
