But it was also a lament for the destruction of Hiroshima by a nuclear bomb in 1945. Yes it was catchy, that heavenly synth line spiralling toward the troposphere. OMD were, by contrast, hugely ambivalent about Enola Gay. When Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark ’s Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys played their weird new song for their record label, the suits immediately heard the chiming of cash tills.