McCluskey had long intended writing about the dawn of the atomic age. The pilot, Paul Tibbets, always felt that he had done the right thing.” “And of course, there is no more greater moral dilemma than whether you should drop an atomic bomb that kills 140,000 people in the hope that it might save five million. “I’m not a black and white person: it’s always fascinated me…you are actively encouraged to do things in a time of war that would get you locked up for. “I’ve been fascinated – but not in a celebratory way – about the moral dilemmas that occur in warfare. “I’ve always had an ambivalence regarding the dropping of the bomb,” says McCluskey a history nerd and World War 2 buff going back to his adolescence on the Wirral.
