. >> reporter: brigadier gem, tibbets went in the cockpit to the commander's office. it's a unique path in his nuclear family. 70 years ago, his grandfather, paul tibbets jr. unleashed the nuclear weapons from the plane name their his mother, the inola gay. >> it was a black, boiling mess, and the cloud above it was doubling and rolling and you could see the energy in it. >> the wisdom of that bomb was heavily debated. but the commander of the stealth bombers said that his grandfather never doubted it. >> if my grandfather was sitting here today, he would look at you and said, i had a job to do, and i never lost one night's sleep after that one mission. not one. and the reason is not because i'm a warmonger, but because i knew that this mission i was ordered to do was effective in bringing this war to an end and in the long run saving hundreds of thousands of lives. >> that's an ethos that today's bombers carry on. >> we know our job is to provide safe and effective nuclear deterrents to our allies, and stop bad people wanting do us harm. >> this glass door, it's main

the younger tibbets said if faced with an order like the one his grandmother was given, he would ensurethey carry it out. >> as long as nuclear weapons exist, we will maintain, a safe, security, effective and credible nuclear force. so that if that demand comes from our leadership, with reredke. >> ready to go, but far from eager. you can find out much more about that story and everything else we have been covering on our website, aljazeera.com. our top story the migrant crisis we will have more on that in the news hour in half an hour. if you have these symptoms please immediately seek treatment. >> new york city mayor is delivering that urgent message now that the outbreak of legionnaires disease has climbed. the news has gone from bad to worse, one out of control blaze just jumped the containment line force new evacuations. and a circuit in new hampshire a tent collapsed killed a fathe

was writing about this, the pilot of the lead aircraft on that raid was a man by the name of paul tibbets, you will recognize as the name of the pilot who dropped the bomb , exactly to the day, three years later. he opens the war in germany, and closes the war, essentially in , japan. in this one man's world war ii career, we have the arc of this matter.t dates, 1942, d-day is almost two full years into the future. the great, dramatic battle of months before the end of the war. the way the united states carried of the battle was only in the last days of the war on the ground. for three years it was from the air. beginning in 1942. chapter two, washington, d.c., october 5, 1942. just a few weeks after the raid. a meeting in the office of a wartime bureaucrat by the name of donald nelson who have been the ceo of sears roebuck before the war and was now the head of the war production board. his job was to shift the economy to a wartime basis and to mobilize the country's resources to wage the war. he was working on the basis of a great blueprint called the victory program. capital v, capital

paul tibbets flew this airplane to hiroshima and dropped the world's first atomic bomb on an enemy target. again, he named the airplane after his mother, the enola gay. it is certainly the most emotionally laden artifact, i think it's safe to say, in the entire collection of the national air and space museum. however you come down on the issues that it represents, atomic warfare and that kind of thing, it sort of is an icon that wraps all of those issues up in itself, so people do have interesting reactions to this airplane on all kinds of sides of the issue. it is a b-29 that was built not by the boeing company, which designed the b-29. enola gay was built at the martin plant near omaha, nebraska. they picked out a string of the 29's on that plant and designated them as silverplate airplanes. the silverplate airplanes were the ones that were going to be slightly modified to carry nuclear weapons. they removed all of the armament from them with the exception of the tailgun and made some other modifications. they had to change the bomb bay a bit to be able to fit either the uranium bomb or

paul tibbets was the pilot who flew this airplane to hiroshima, japan on august 6, 1945, and dropped the world's first atomic bomb on an enemy target. again, he named the airplane after his mother, the enola gay. it is certainly the most emotionally laden artifact, i think it's safe to say, in the entire collection of the national air and space museum. however you come down on the issues that it represents, atomic warfare and that kind of thing, it sort of is an icon that wraps all of those issues up in itself, so people do have interesting reactions to this airplane on all kinds of sides of the issue. it is a b-29 that was built not by the boeing company, which designed the b-29. enola gay was built at the martin plant near omaha, nebraska. and they picked out a string of b-29's on the line at that plant and designated them as silverplate airplanes. the silverplate airplanes were the ones that were going to be slightly modified to carry nuclear weapons. they removed all of the armament from them with the exception of the tailgun and they made some other modifications. they had to ch