On August 6, 1945, Japanese marine engineer Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a work trip for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
He lived in Nagasaki. That day he was away on business.
The blast caught him less than 2 miles (3 kilometers) from ground zero.
He survived, wounded.
The next day he went home. On August 9, still hurt, he went to work.
His boss?
His supervisor called him crazy for saying one bomb had destroyed a whole city.
At that same moment, the second bomb exploded over Nagasaki.
This blast caught him less than 2 miles (3 kilometers) from ground zero.
He survived that one too.
Years later, the Japanese government officially recognized him.
On March 24, 2009, he became the first and only known survivor of both bombings to receive official recognition from Japanese authorities.
He said his double radiation exposure was now an official government record. It could tell the younger generation the horrifying history of the atomic bombings even after he died.
He died on January 4, 2010, in Nagasaki, at 93.
The two blasts did not kill him.
His words stayed after he was gone.
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