Photo, left:  August 6, 2016, is the seventy-first anniversary of the first use of an atomic weapon in war.  Left picture: At the time this photo was made, smoke billowed 20,000 feet above Hiroshima while smoke from the burst of the first atomic bomb had spread over 10,000 feet on the target at the base of the rising column. Six planes of the 509th Composite Group participated in this mission: one to carry the bomb (Enola Gay), one to take scientific measurements of the blast (The Great Artiste), the third to take photographs (Necessary Evil), while the others flew approximately an hour ahead to act as weather scouts (08/06/1945). Bad weather would disqualify a target as the scientists insisted on a visual delivery. The primary target was Hiroshima, the secondary was Kokura, and the tertiary was Nagasaki. Right picture: Atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, taken by Charles Levy
 
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One
Saturday 6 August  2016 / Hour 1, Block A: On the Ropes: A Novel, by James Vance and Dan E. Burr (1 of 2)
Saturday 6 August  2016 / Hour 1, Block B: On the Ropes: A Novel, by James Vance and Dan E. Burr (2 of 2)
Saturday 6 August  2016 / Hour 1, Block C: Law of the Desert Born: Stories, by Louis L'Amour (1 of 2)
Saturday 6 August  2016 / Hour 1, Block D: Law of the Desert Born: Stories, by Louis L'Amour (2 of 2)
 
Hour Two
Saturday 6 August  2016 / Hour 2, Block A:  Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles, by John Mack Faragher  (1 of 8)
Saturday 6 August  2016 / Hour 2, Block B:  Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles, by John Mack Faragher  (2 of 8)
Saturday 6 August  2016 / Hour 2, Block C:  Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles, by John Mack Faragher  (3 of 8)
Saturday 6 August  2016 / Hour 2, Block D: Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles, by John Mack Faragher  (4 of 8)
 
Hour Three
Saturday 6 August  2016 / Hour 3, Block A:  Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles, by John Mack Faragher  (5 of 8)
Saturday 6 August  2016 / Hour 3, Block B:  Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles, by John Mack Faragher  (6 of 8) 
Saturday 6 August  2016 / Hour 3, Block C:  Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles, by John Mack Faragher  (7 of 8)
Saturday 6 August  2016 / Hour 3, Block D:  Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles, by John Mack Faragher  (8 of 8)
 
Hour Four
Saturday 6 August  2016 / Hour 4, Block A:  On the Ropes: A Novel, by James Vance and Dan E. Burr (1 of 2)
Saturday 6 August  2016 / Hour 4, Block B:  On the Ropes: A Novel, by James Vance and Dan E. Burr (2 of 2)
Saturday 6 August  2016 / Hour 4, Block C:  Law of the Desert Born: Stories, by Louis L'Amour (1 of 2)
Saturday 6 August  2016 / Hour 4, Block D: Law of the Desert Born: Stories, by Louis L'Amour (2 of 2)