Orville Wright was still alive when
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed during 1945.
The Wright brothers are credited with inventing what we know as
airplanes, and it must have been tremendously difficult for
Orville Wright, whose brother Wilbur died in 1912, to see his
life's great achievement be responsible for the greatest single
act of destruction man had ever seen. During 1945, US Air Force
planes dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki, killing at least 129,000 people.
Orville died in 1948 and expressed sadness in an interview about
the death and destruction brought about by the bombers of World
War II. He said, "We dared to hope we had invented something
that would bring lasting peace to the earth. But we were wrong
... No, I don't have any regrets about my part in the invention
of the airplane, though no one could deplore more than I do the
destruction it has caused. I feel about the airplane much the
same as I do in regard to fire. That is, I regret all the
terrible damage caused by fire, but I think it is good for the
human race that someone discovered how to start fires and that
we have learned how to put fire to thousands of important uses."
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