It has been stabilized by engineers to remain a lasting symbol of the ravages of war and the importance of peace. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park includes the Genbaku Dome (A–Bomb Dome), the remains of the old Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, built in 1915 and destroyed in August 1945. Instead, he decided to pursue his passion of aviation. Harry Crum at 3340 Whitfield Avenue in Cincinnati, Tibbets soon realized that he did not have a vocation for medicine. His family encouraged him to become a doctor, and for a year and a half, he attended the University of Cincinnati for medical training. was born in Quincy, Illinois, and later moved with his parents to Hialeah, Florida in suburban Miami. Weighing almost 10,000 pounds, the nuclear weapon contained uranium-235. Piloted by then-Colonel Paul Tibbets (1915–2007), the plane’s payload was “Little Boy,” the codename for the first nuclear bomb to be used in warfare. On Monday, August 6, 1945, a B-29 Superfortress bomber named the Enola Gay took off from the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Part 8 of our series on the 75th anniversary of the closing stages of World War II and Part 39 of our series, “Resilience and Renaissance: Newport, Kentucky, 1795-2020.”