KERA News
Originally Posted: August 17, 2015
This month marks the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Japan. Two atomic bombs named ‘Little Boy’ and ‘Fat Man’ were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 in an effort to end World War II. A Texan, Major James Hopkins, piloted one of the planes on the Nagasaki mission.
His son, SMU Professor Emeritus Jim Hopkins, joined KERA’s Justin Martin to talk about his father. LISTEN HERE