A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion but the whole air…

- Paul Tibbets

I will go only so far as to say that I knew what an atom was.

- Paul Tibbets

I'm proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it and have it work as perfectly as it did... I sleep clearly every night.

- Paul Tibbets