Ramsey led the bomb delivery effort ... the world’s first atomic blast, in the New Mexico desert. Once on Tinian, the Silverplate B-29s began flying unescorted single-airplane missions to ...

1,560 miles north of Tinian is the Japanese city of Hiroshima ... For the men who developed the atomic bomb and masterminded the mission, their families and the rest of the world finally know ...

Tinian is less than 40 square miles. The island was used to launch U.S. bomber raids on Japan during World War II, including ...

After being told of plans for the bombs, in June 1944 he was shipped to the Pacific Island of Tinian, where his job was to test ignition switches for the atomic bomb “Fat Man”, which was later ...

Early in the morning of August 6, 1946, a US Air Force B29 bomber, the Enola Gay, took off from the its base in Tinian ... Three days later the second atomic bomb was dropped on the city of ...