ABSTRACT
Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the first nuclear sortie in August 1945, refers to himself as a sightseer, thus making the crew of the Enola Gay the first, self-proclaimed nuclear tourists. They were viewing from a safe distance the utterly destroyed city of Hiroshima, watching a spectacle that they ignited, which claimed the lives of 100,000 people with a flash of light. Participating from afar, being the watchers safely removed, gazing upon an assortment of events, they defined the characteristics of nuclear tourism. After they took pictures, the men of the Enola Gay flew back to base for a beer party held in their honour.1
