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History & discoveries · 29 October 2026

One man survived both atomic bombs.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, then travelled home to Nagasaki and was there on 9 August. Japan officially recognised him as a survivor of both in 2009.

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