Double A-Bomb Survivor
Not the kind of accomplishment anyone goes looking for. Officially registered in Japan. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was on business in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945 and suffered some burns. Then he went home to Nagasaki. UK Guardian:
At 11.02 on 9 August, as his boss reportedly questioned his sanity for believing that a single bomb could destroy a city the size of Hiroshima, a 25-kiloton plutonium bomb exploded above Nagasaki, throwing Yamaguchi to the ground.
Today, at 93, he’s a little deaf in one ear.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:49 pm on Tuesday, March 24, 2009
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March 25th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Makes one believe in fate.