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EPISODE · Jul 19, 2022 · 36 MIN

Tsutomu Yamaguchi: The World's Only (Recognized) Double Atomic Bomb Victim

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On August 6th, 1945, Mitsubishi engineer Tsutomu Yamaguchi was finally heading home from a three month assignment in Hiroshima... until the United States dropped an atomic bomb over the city. Miraculously, he survived the bombing and made his way home to Nagasaki -- where he once again witnessed, and survived, an atomic bomb. Tune in to learn more about Tsutomu Yamaguchi's harrowing journey, as well as his life after surviving not one, but two separate atomic bombs.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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