[Nuclear] Surviving two atomic bombs

Mar 25, 2009 12:43

-- On a business trip in Hiroshima, then home to Nagasaki

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7963581.stm

Quotes:

Japan has certified a man aged 93 as the only known survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, both hit by atomic bombs towards the end of World War II.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip on 6 August 1945 when a US plane dropped the first atomic bomb.

He suffered serious burns and spent a night there before returning to his home city of Nagasaki just before it was bombed on 9 August.

He said he hoped his experience held a lesson of peace for future generations.
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