![]() In 2020, it’s a sleepy, rustic, tropical paradise of 3,000 residents. Tinian is part of the Northern Mariana Islands, now a US territory in the Pacific. Now it sits, essentially ignored, on the Pacific island of Tinian, from where the US Army Air Force B-29 bombers that performed those atomic strikes on Japan departed. It’s the assembly point for the dawning of the atomic age. ![]() This slab is where the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago were put together. “You’re walking the path of the atomic bomb.” As I do, my guide puts these few steps in extraordinary perspective. I walk through the doorway, through the interior and out the garage. What was once a doorway is obvious, as are the bases for a couple interior walls and an opening for a larger garage-like entrance. But on this slab, not much bigger than the footprint of a beach cabin, history changed. It’s a discolored concrete slab, molding in the tropical humidity.
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