“On August 6, 1945, he was about to leave the city of Hiroshima, where he had been working, when the first bomb exploded, killing 140,000 people. Injured and reeling from the horrors around him, he fled to his home — Nagasaki, 180 miles to the west. There, on August 9, the second atomic bomb exploded over his head.”
— Tsutomu Yamaguchi, only official survivor of both atomic bombs, dies aged 93. his nickname was “lucky”. (via darrenf)
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