The personal diary of Captain Robert Lewis, co-pilot of the US B-29 Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, has been put up for auction for $950,000.

California rare book dealer Dan Whitmore is offering the notebook, which contains the pilot's in-flight thoughts, including his famous phrase "My God, what have we done."

"The bomb is now alive. And it is a strange feeling to know it is right behind you," Lewis wrote as they approached Hiroshima.

This marks the fifth ownership change for the historical document: first sold in 1971 for $37,000, with the last transaction in 2022 at $543,000.

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulted in up to 100,000 immediate deaths, with total casualties exceeding 350,000 to date.

Source: podrobno.uz