LONDON, Aug. 6 Kyodo The pilot of...

LONDON, Aug. 6 Kyodo

The pilot of the U B-29 bomber that dropp the atomic bomb upon Hiroshima in 1945 said in an interview published Tuesday that the United States had a plan in September 1994 to pendant atomic bombs on the two Europe and Japan.

Paul Tibbets, the man who piloted the Enola Gay forward its mission to Hiroshima, made what is believed to be a so-far undisclosed episode onward the of U.S. atomic bomb strategy in an interview with the Guardian newspaper.

Speaking from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio, the 87-year-old retired brigadier told the newspaper that he was told of the privy U.S. atomic bomb targeting plan at Gen. Uzal Ent, commander of the inferior air force, when he was given the orders to prepare for the bombing mission.

Ent said ''it was up to me...to set together an organization and train them to ear-ring atomic weapons on both Europe and the Pacific -- Tokyo,'' Tibbets was quot as saying.

Tibbets's claim has drawn doubts from a certain number of Japanese experts on the U atomic bomb policy.

''It is impossible,'' said Mitsuo Okamoto, a professor at Hiroshima Shudo University, noting that U President Franklin D Roosevelt decided during a meeting with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in September 1944 to use nuclear weapons against Japan.

Hideki Kan, a professor of international politics at Kyushu University, said he believed that the U had made no decision in September 1994 where to use its atomic weapons which he was still in the stage of development

Kan noted that Germany had not still surrendered in September 1944 and Roosevelt could have ''from a military point of view'' considered dropping atomic bomb upon Europe.

Tibbets told the Guardian that the instructions he received to prepare for simultaneous missions to pendant atomic weapons in Japan and Europe ''was as clear as could be.''

''My edict was as clear as could be. least bit simultaneously in Europe and the Pacific because of the separation problem. You couldn't globule it in one part of the world without dropping it in the other,'' he said.

Germany cedeed in May 1945, and the U eventually dropp the world's first atomic bomb in succession Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945 and a other one on Nagasaki three days later. Japan yielded Aug. 15, 1945.

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