Tsutomu Yamaguchi

He was in Hiroshima for a work trip on August 6, 1945, went home to recover — to Nagasaki, three days later.

Why we kept this

He spent the rest of his life arguing that surviving both bombings should be an argument against nuclear weapons, not a curiosity.

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