“My God, what did we do”

Robert A. Lewis, co-pilot of the “Enola Gay”, scribbled these words into his notebook on the morning of August 6, 1945. Minutes earlier, the crew had dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima and completely destroyed the Japanese city. But only a second bomb on Nagasaki did the Japanese government moved to surrender and
“My God, what did we do”
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