Most people don't know Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, when the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb. 😱
At 8:15 a.m., the Enola Gay unleashed "Little Boy," a uranium bomb that vaporized the city center just 3 kilometers from where Yamaguchi stood on business. The blast wave threw him to the ground, searing his skin with radiation burns, blinding him temporarily, and deafening him with the roar. Amid the chaos—fires raging, buildings flattened—he somehow staggered through the rubble.
Bandaged but unbroken, Yamaguchi boarded a train and made the grueling journey home to Nagasaki, his hometown. Against all odds, he reported to work just days later, determined to carry on despite the pain and disorientation.
Then, on August 9, fate struck again. While on a business trip in Nagasaki, "Fat Man," the plutonium bomb dropped by Bockscar, detonated almost directly overhead at 11:02 a.m. The hypocenter was mere kilometers away, yet Yamaguchi survived the second inferno, his body already scarred from the first.
Officially verified by the Japanese government, he remains the only person confirmed to endure both atomic blasts—the sheer statistical improbability defying comprehension. The bombings killed over 200,000, but Yamaguchi pressed on, rebuilding his life through decades of scars, health struggles, and quiet resilience.
He lived to 93, witnessing Japan's rebirth from ashes. In 2010, just before his death, the government finally recognized his extraordinary survival.
Twice bombed, twice spared—a cosmic joke on mortality's edge.
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