It was in this hospital that he began to correspond with Günther Anders, a German philosopher and pacifist, who became his friend in a battle to promote the abolition of nuclear weapons. He tried speaking out with pacifist groups, sending parts of his paycheck to Hiroshima, writing letters of apology, and once or twice may have attempted suicide. Eatherly claimed to have become horrified by his participation in the Hiroshima bombing, and hopeless at the possibility of repenting for or earning forgiveness for willfully extinguishing so many lives and causing so much pain. That correspondence, which lasted for two years, is the basis for this book. In 1959, the German philosopher Gunther Anders began a correspondence with Eatherly, who was then in a mental hospital. Later, appalled by the terrible deed in which he had participated, Eatherly sought in many ways to express his profound guilt. Claude Eatherly was the pilot who flew the lead plane over Hiroshima and gave the go-ahead signal to drop the first A-bomb. Army Air Forces during World War II, and the pilot of a weather reconnaissance aircraft Straight Flush that supported the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, August 6, 1945. Claude Robert Eatherly (OctoJuly 1, 1978) was an officer in the U.S. Anders became a leading figure in the anti-nuclear movement. He married fellow Heidegger student Hannah Arendt. Anders studied with the philosopher Martin Heidegger in Freiburg. In 1992, shortly before his death, Günther Anders was awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize.
Trained in the phenomenological tradition, he developed a philosophical anthropology for the age of technology, focusing on such themes as the effects of mass media on our emotional and ethical existence, the illogic of religion, the nuclear threat, the Shoah, and the question of being a philosopher. Günther Anders (born Günther Siegmund Stern Breslau, 12 July 1902 - Vienna, 17 December 1992) was a German philosopher, journalist, essayist and poet.
DJ scuffed and worn: small tears, small pieces missing. The book also contains a postscript for American readers by Gunther Anders.