Straight south of Marlins Park, in a nondescript apartment building typical to and located in Little Havana at 1629 SW 6th Street, is where Enola Gay Tibbets lived at the time that her son, Paul Tibbets, Jr., became the first pilot to drop an atomic bomb, named Little Boy, on Hiroshima. People have understandably mixed feelings about this event. It was the beginning of the end of World War II, certainly a good thing, but at a horrific cost that surely anyone would want to avoid if possible. It also was a pivot, of sorts, for humanity. We’ve not been quite the same since, as at any given point we are aware of how much we might be at risk of a nuclear conflict.
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