A giant column of smoke rises, after the nuclear bomb explodes over the Japanese port and town of Nagasaki, on August 9, 1945 Photo: AP From The Telegraph:
A 93-year-old Japanese man has become the first person to be officially recognised as a survivor of both atomic bombs dropped on Japan by the United States at the end of the Second World War.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi had already been a certified hibakusha, or radiation survivor, of the Aug 9, 1945, atomic bombing in Nagasaki. But officials have now confirmed that he also survived the attack on Hiroshima three days earlier.
Mr Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip on Aug 6, 1945, when a US B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the city. He then returned to his home in Nagasaki just in time for the second attack, officials said.
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More News On A Double Atomic Bomb Survivor
How I survived Hiroshima – and then Nagasaki -- The Independent
A little deaf in one ear - meet the Japanese man who survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- The Guardian
The Luckiest or Unluckiest Man in the World? Tsutomu Yamaguchi, double A-bomb victim -- Times Online
Survivor of Both A-Bombs Is Certified -- New York Times
Japan man proves he survived both atomic bombs -- AFP
My Comment: I sometimes complain about my week .... but this Japanese atomic bomb survivor takes the cake for those four days in Japan in August, 1945.
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