The atomic age, some would say, began with crucial early experiments by scientists including Niels Bohr, Lise Meitner, Enrico Fermi and Robert Teller in the late 1930s, or with Albert Einstein's and Leo Szilard's famous letter of Aug(see lot 161) warning President Franklin D. 'MY GOD WHAT HAVE WE DONE.THE GREATEST EXPLOSION MAN HAS EVER WITNESSED': THE VIOLENT BIRTH OF THE ATOMIC AGE: THE 'ENOLA GAY' CO-PILOT'S IN-FLIGHT LOGBOOK OF THE MOMENTOUS MISSION WHICH DELIVERED 'LITTLE BOY,' THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB, TO HIROSHIMA, AUGUST 6, 1945 11 pages (comprising front and back covers, inside front cover and 8 text pages), small folio (9¼ x 6 in.), in ink and pencil in a War Department 'Line of Position' notebook, bound in cloth-backed paper wrappers, 14 additional text pages with Lewis's 'History of the 509th Bomb Group' (10 August 1945), upper cover with Lewis's hand-lettered title, a list of the crew, etc., REAR COVER WITH LEWIS'S SIGNED PENCIL SKETCH OF THE MUSHROOM CLOUD OVER HIROSHIMA (labeled with time: 0930 hours), minor wear to wrappers, corners bumped, otherwise in excellent condition. 6, 1945,' containing a minute-by-minute account of the historic 'Little Boy' mission which dropped the world's first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, WRITTEN IN FLIGHT OVER THE PACIFIC AND OVER THE TARGET, 6 August 1945. Autograph logbook signed, entitled 'Bombing of Hiroshima Aug.
Army Air Corps, Co-pilot of the B-29 bomber the Enola Gay.
