On this day 79 years ago, this runway on the small island of Tinian in the Mariana Islands changed the world. It was from this stretch of remote pavement that the Enola Gay took to the air with a ferocious new weapon, headed to Hiroshima to inflict unbelievable damage.

We visited the then-abandoned site in 2017 as part of our travel quest to visit all the major sites associated with the Manhattan Project.