Jacob Beser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Beser
Beser was the radar specialist aboard the Enola Gay on August 6, 1945, when it dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, Beser was a crewmember aboard Bockscar when “Fat Man” was dropped on Nagasaki. He was the only person to have served as a strike crew member of both of the 1945 atomic bomb missions.[1]
Jacob Beser also:
When asked about his atomic bomb missions on numerous interviews, Beser made the following response:
For years I have been asked two questions. (1) Would you do it again? (2) Do you feel any guilt for having been a part of Hiroshima’s destruction?
One has to consider the context of the times in which decisions are made. Given the same set of circumstances as existed in 1945, I would not hesitate to take part in another similar mission.
No I feel no sorrow or remorse for whatever small role I played. That I should is crazy. I remember Pearl Harbor and all of the Japanese atrocities. I remember the shock to our nation that all of this brought. I don’t want to hear any discussion of morality. War, by its very nature, is immoral. Are you any more dead from an atomic bomb than from a conventional bomb?[6]
AND (if only our high school and colleges were this good today)
had a scientific understanding of the new weapons’ potential and destructiveness, as a result of his earlier high school and university education.