Tibbets, echoing a refrain made popular by President Harry Truman, insists that he never lost sleep over that decision. Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay, will also be out in force. invasion of the Japanese homeland existed, the bombs' defenders, including Gen. While forthcoming books by historians Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Gerard DeGroot, and Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird will advance the scholarly criticism of the bombings and show that viable alternatives for quickly ending the war without a U.S. With the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombings fast approaching, commemorative events and symposia are being planned across the globe in places as diverse, yet symbolically significant, as Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Tinian, London, Tokyo, Washington, and Los Alamos. The Enola Gay in History and Memory by Christine Girardin
