News about Frederick Soddy

American pilot Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr, then aged 30, changed the course of history when he dropped the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, during World War ll, instantly killing 78,000 people. Nicknamed 'Little Boy' and plunged from the USAAF B-29 bomber, Enola Gay; August 6, 1945 marks the deadly day the device would ravish entire towns in its wake. The bomb's aftermath would take the death toll to 140,000 following complications from severe burns and radiation sickness. The Illinois-born aircraft captain passed away in 2007, aged 92, but not before revealing his chilling thoughts on the calamitous mission (Pictured left: Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr; right: Paul waving from the Enola Gay's cockpit before taking off for the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6 1945; inset: The Boeing B-29 Superfortress 'Enola Gay')