He's an authority. (No Comment).
Paul Tibbets Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. (born February 23, 1915) is a retired brigadier general in the United States Air Force and was the pilot of the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. , the man who dropped the Atomic bomb atomic bomb or A-bomb, weapon deriving its explosive force from the release of atomic energy through the fission (splitting) of heavy nuclei (see nuclear energy). The first atomic bomb was produced at the Los Alamos, N.Mex. on Hiroshima, dismisses civilian casualties Civilian casualties is a military term describing civilian or non-combatant persons killed or injured by military action. The description of civilian casualties includes any form of military action regardless of whether civilians were targeted directly. during wartime. "That's their tough luck for being there," he told Studs Terkel during an interview published in the Guardian.
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