Paul Newman, the Pacific and the bomb that changed the world

Paul Newman, the Pacific and the bomb that changed the world

On Aug. 6, 1945, a 19-year-old U.S. sailor was serving aboard the aircraft carrier Hollandia about 500 miles off the coast of Japan when he learned the U.S. had just obliterated Hiroshima with a new “super-weapon” — an atomic bomb with the force of 20,000 tons of TNT. A more powerful bomb was dropped at Nagasaki three days later.There is no record of what the aviation radioman third class said or thought when he heard the news, though he likely …