Take it From Someone Who’s Dropped One

Theodore Van Kirk was the navigator of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the “Little Boy” atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. He’s interviewed in the documentary White Light, Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and just before the end of the movie he has this to say:

You always have these oddballs in a group and somebody says, “Ah, we should drop a nuke over in Iraq.” The stupid jerk doesn’t even know what a nuke is. If he did, he wouldn’t say that.