Surreal Footage on Instagram: "In a 1989 interview, General Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, described the Hiroshima mission as a grim but calculated operation. He stressed that while the consequences were devastating, the goal was to end the war quickly and save lives. Tibbets admitted the moral weight of the bombing but argued it was necessary for Japan’s surrender. “We knew it was going to take out people right and left,” he said, but his focus was ending casualties as fast as possible.