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Paul Tibbets Quotes

1915–2007 United States

Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (February 23, 1915 – November 1, 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force and the pilot of the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb.

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Morality, there is no such thing in warfare. I don’t care whether you are dropping atom bombs, or 100-pound bombs, or shooting a rifle. You have got to leave the moral issue out of it.

A mushroom of boiling dust...up to 20,000 feet.

I'm proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it, and have it work as perfectly as it did... I sleep clearly every night.

I lived with a doctor. He would tell me about previous doctors, some that had been classmates of his, who were drug salesmen. [...] because they could not practice medicine due to the fact that they had too much sympathy for their patients.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Paul Tibbets (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.