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Nagasaki Day: Remembering Man Who Survived Two Atomic Bombs
On Nagasaki Day, the story of Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only person officially recognised by Japan as a survivor of both atomic bombings, is being remembered. He was in Hiroshima on August 6,…
The Story in Brief
On Nagasaki Day, the story of Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only person officially recognised by Japan as a survivor of both atomic bombings, is being remembered. He was in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, for work when the first bomb exploded, leaving him with severe burns. He returned home to Nagasaki the next day.
On August 9, while describing the Hiroshima blast to his supervisor, the second bomb detonated overhead. Yamaguchi survived again, as did his wife and son, though radiation sickness affected them for years. He stayed silent for decades before becoming a nuclear abolition advocate, telling his story at the UN in 2006 and in a documentary. He died in 2010 at 93.
The Indian Opinion
The temptation on Nagasaki Day is to reduce Yamaguchi to a freakish footnote, a lucky man who cheated death twice. That misses the point of his witness. His survival was not a lottery win but a burden, one he carried quietly for decades before using it to push for a world without nuclear weapons. The real story is not how he lived, but why he chose to speak. Watch whether today's leaders actually honour that memory with action, not just silence and doves.
Source: timesnownews.com
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