The Enola Gay and the secret history behd the Hiroshima missn - Washgton Post

Contents:

• GAY BOMB: STORY BEHD THE STORY
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'
• GAY BOMB
• HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON

GAY BOMB: STORY BEHD THE STORY

The ia of a gay bomb me om a sire to bilate and distract their opponents but not necsarily kill them. Wikimedia CommonsThe gay bomb was a theoretil cloud of gas that would turn enemy soldiers gay.

The ncept of a “gay bomb” sounds like somethg out of a bad science fictn movie. They put together a three-page proposal which they tailed their $7.5 ln ventn: the gay bomb.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB

The gay bomb would be a cloud of gas that would be discharged over enemy mps “that ntaed a chemil that would e enemy soldiers to bee gay, and to have their uns break down bee all their soldiers beme irristibly attractive to one another.”. Basilly, the pheromon the gas would turn the soldiers gay.

The scientists ntued to suggt addns to the gay bomb, cludg aphrodisiacs, and other scents.

Thankfully, the gay bomb was only ever theoretil and never put to motn. Like the gay bomb, the creative chemil ias also never me to un.

MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'

Dpe the drawbacks, for their work such an novative field, the rearchers who nceptualized the gay bomb were award the Ig Nobel Prize, a parody award which celebrat unual scientific achievements that “first make people lgh, and then make them thk.”. The gay bomb certaly fs the bill for that one. After readg about the theoretil gay bomb, check out the super real Bat Bomb.

Enola Gay, the B-29bomber that was ed by the Uned Stat on Augt 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, the first time the explosive vice had been ed on an enemy target. Tman was rmed of the velopment while attendg the Potsdam Conference, and he turn told Soviet lear Joseph Stal that the Uned Stat had “a new weapon of unual stctive force.” On July 26 the Allied lears lled for Japan to unndnally surrenr or face “prompt and utter stctn.” After Japan ignored the mand, the cisn was ma to bomb Hiroshima.At approximately 2:45 am on Augt 6, 1945, Tibbets—who was now a full lonel—and a crew of 11 took off om Tian island rryg a uranium bomb that was known as “Ltle Boy.” The Enola Gay—Tibbets had a matenance man pat that name on the aircraft’s nose shortly before takeoff—was acpanied by var other plan.

Tibbets flew the Enola Gay back to Tian, where he was award the Distguished Service Cross. Three days later the Enola Gay nducted weather rennaissance the lead-up to the bombg of Nagasaki, Japan.

GAY BOMB

Japan officially surrenred on September 2, 1945.The Enola Gay remaed service for several years before beg given to the Smhsonian Instutn on July 3, 1949.

In 2003 the fully rtored Enola Gay was put on display at the NASM’s Steven F. I remember the Gay Bomb story, havg vered New Scientist a uple of years ago -- -- right after Noah ma his ial report -- and beg amed by the subsequent media tert.

HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON

And granted, the "Gay Bomb" never received any feral fundg. *We know about the "Gay Bomb" bee of the Sunshe Project's work – and bee was bizarre and tchy enough to get the media's attentn.

Do gay uns really have bad disciple? On Augt 6, 1945, the Enola Gay dropped Ltle Boy on the Japane cy of Hiroshima.

The Begng or the End claimed the Amerin ary dropped warng leaflets about the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and that the Enola Gay me unr attack om Japane antiaircraft missile fire on s bombg n. Did not drop leaflets warng of the atomic bomb specifilly, though pilots may have dropped more general notic of impendg attacks on Hiroshima, and the Enola Gay did not e unr antiaircraft fire.