Guys:
1. the amount of secrecy sorrounding the manhatten project was unbelievable. There were only a total of 25 people world wide that positively, absolutely knew that they were making a atom bomb. The rest just knew what their end of the co-ordination told them to develope: this group worked on determining fisson mass, and this group worked on implosion masses, and this group practiced dropping very large, bulky item from 20,000 feet...yet each of these groups didnt know it was for a atom bomb. the people that ran the manhatten project wanted it that way.
2. Tibbets, the group leader of the aircraft that dropped the first weapons, knew all about what the end goal of his groups training was for. he was one of that group of 25. His crew never learned that they were hauling an actual atomic weapon untill they were in the air, headed towards japan. Now they knew that the weapons they were going to drop on japan were special. They had practicing bombing with these large practice bombs for better than a year. Even when the crew was told about the atomic bomb, most didnt know, nor did they care what an atomic weapon did. But they knew their training was to deliver it. And they did. No freakouts. No panic. no nothing.
by everything logical, it should have been the second planes crew that would have revolted, if the thought of using it was that bad. but none did. they too delivered their weapons as they were taught to do.
I dont know what to tell you guys. I wished we lived in a kinder, gentler world where really large, bad, man made things that kill large amounts of people didnt have to exist, or happen. But we dont. :?