The Man Who Survived Two Atomic Bombs
Tsutomu Yamaguchi was on a business trip in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, when the first bomb fell. Burned and half-deaf, he traveled home to Nagasaki just in time for the second. This is the story of the only person officially recognized as surviving both blasts, and what he did with the decades he was never supposed to have.
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived the Hiroshima blast because he returned to a shipyard to retrieve a personal stamp.
Yamaguchi fled Hiroshima on a train filled with refugees to reach his home in Nagasaki.
The second atomic bomb detonated while Yamaguchi was describing the first explosion to his skeptical supervisor.
Reinforced concrete walls protected Yamaguchi from the second blast while he was at work in Nagasaki.
The Japanese government officially recognized Yamaguchi as a double survivor in March twenty-oh-nine.
Yamaguchi suffered from lifelong leukopenia and cataracts before dying of stomach cancer at age ninety-three.
- 01Intro1 min
- 02The Forgotten Seal2 min
- 03The Train to Nagasaki2 min
- 04The Second Flash2 min
- 05The Decades of Silence2 min
- 06A Mandate to Speak2 min
- 07Outro1 min
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