The full story of the process is now related in The Birth of the Bomb, a nuclear whodunit Which fills a gap in our history. It shows that one of them said, after the explosion: 'My God, what have we done?' This question was the end- Product of a process which had begun in Britain in 1919, when Rutherford first tampered with the atom. It took down the words Spoken by the men aboard her.
THERE was a tape-recorder in the Enola Gay, the American warplane which dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima.
