In a recent talk with Colonel Tibbets, who has been in town, we found him suitably uncommunicative about the size, shape, and characteristics of the bomb, and not too readily communicative about anything else. He commanded the 509th Combat Squadron, which conducted a number of still secret experiments having to do with the dropping of atomic bombs, and he piloted the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. to usher in the Atomic Age is a dark-haired, twenty-nine-year-old full colonel named Paul W.
