Who was the guy that survived both atomic bombs?

Miraculous Survivor of the Hiroshima Atomic Blast. A 29-year-old naval engineer named Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived both attacks, and he became an eyewitness to the disastrous situation during the attack. He was an employee at the Mitsubishi Heavy industries, working on designing a new oil tanker.
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Are there any Hiroshima survivors still alive?

Some 127,000 survivors of the nuclear bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still alive.
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Who was the closest survivor of Hiroshima?

Yoshito Matsushige was a Hiroshima survivor and the only photographer who was able to capture an immediate, first-hand photographic historical account of the destruction of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. On August 6, 1945, Matsushige was 32 years old, living at home in Midori-cho, Hiroshima.
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Why was Yamaguchi in Hiroshima?

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was preparing to leave Hiroshima when the atomic bomb fell. The 29-year-old naval engineer was on a three-month-long business trip for his employer, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and August 6, 1945, was supposed to be his last day in the city.
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Is Nagasaki still radioactive?

Is there still radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki today is on a par with the extremely low levels of background radiation (natural radioactivity) present anywhere on Earth. It has no effect on human bodies.
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Which bomb was more damaging to Yamaguchi Why?

Which bomb was more damaging to Yamaguchi and why? The "Little Boy" bomb was most damaging to Yamaguchi because he was outside when it hit and he was physically affected by it. His body was severely damaged.
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Did people's eyes fall out in Hiroshima?

Charred remains of the deceased with eyes protruding

With the fierce pressure of the blast the air pressure in the area dropped instantaneously, resulting in eyeballs and internal organs popping out from bodies.
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Who were the 6 survivors in Hiroshima?

The six survivors were Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto, Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, Dr. Masakazu Fujii, and Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge. Hiroshima is a Pulitzer Prize winner novel in 1946 by John Hersey.
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Does anyone live in Hiroshima or Nagasaki now?

Just like Hiroshima, Nagasaki is perfectly safe for people to live in today. Not only is Nagasaki safe, but it is a lovely city as well. The city had a notable foreign (largely Dutch) influence from the early 1600s onwards.
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How did the Japanese feel after the atomic bomb was dropped on them?

Further, 28 percent of the people of Japan as a whole said they had never reached a point where they felt they could not go on with the war, whereas 39 percent of the people in the Hiroshima-Nagasaki areas said they had never reached such a point.
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Who nuked Japan?

The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.
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Did anyone survive the nuclear bomb?

Miraculous Survivor of the Hiroshima Atomic Blast. A 29-year-old naval engineer named Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived both attacks, and he became an eyewitness to the disastrous situation during the attack. He was an employee at the Mitsubishi Heavy industries, working on designing a new oil tanker.
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Who created the atomic bomb?

J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was an American theoretical physicist. During the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory and responsible for the research and design of an atomic bomb. He is often known as the “father of the atomic bomb."
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Are there any atomic bombs left?

From a high of 70,300 active weapons in 1986, as of 2019 there are approximately 3,750 active nuclear warheads and 13,890 total nuclear warheads in the world. Many of the decommissioned weapons were simply stored or partially dismantled, not destroyed.
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Who is the standing boy of Nagasaki?

The boy standing by the crematory (alternatively "The standing boy of Nagasaki") is a historic photograph taken in Nagasaki, Japan in September of 1945, shortly after the atomic bombing of that city on August 9, 1945.
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How did Dr Sasaki respond to the crisis?

Sasaki do after the bomb was dropped? He went to the storeroom to get bandages an a bottle of Mercurochrome. He then bandaged up the chief surgeon and started to help all of the other doctors and nurses. He decided to help the people bleeding to death before those who were lightly injured.
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How is Hiroshima now?

Hiroshima Today. In 1958, the population of Hiroshima reached 410,000, finally exceeding what it was before the war. In 1980, Hiroshima became Japan's tenth "government ordinance designated city." At present, it is a major urban center, home to about 1.12 million.
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How long did it take to clean up Hiroshima?

There were the grim tasks of collecting the bodies and burning them, of clearing the rubble and debris. In all, 2.4 million sq. mi. had to be cleared and surveyed—a painstaking process that took four years.
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What was the temperature of the Hiroshima bomb?

And it did. The bomb had an explosive yield of around 13 kilotons. At the moment of detonation, a fireball was generated that raised temperatures to 4,000 degrees Celsius, turning Hiroshima – where many buildings were made of wood and paper - into an inferno.
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What happened to the city of Hiroshima after the bomb hit?

Hiroshima had been completely destroyed by the A-bomb, but gradually electricity, transportation, and other functions were restored. The people collected any unburned materials they could find and began rebuilding their homes and their lives.
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Is Yamaguchi lucky or unlucky?

One man, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, was unlucky enough to be in both cities at the time that the atom bombs were dropped on them – and, amazingly, lucky enough to not only survive both blasts, but to live to a ripe old age. Yamaguchi was born in 1916 in Nagasaki, where he grew up and qualified as a draftsman.
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Do you consider Yamaguchi to be lucky or unlucky?

Yamaguchi says that the reason he wants nuclear disarmament is because of what the possession of nuclear weapons does to the dignity of human beings. I consider him to be extremely lucky to have survive two destructive nuclear attacks. He was also lucky to live a long life.
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Was there a third atomic bomb?

It was the second of the only two nuclear weapons ever used in warfare, the first being Little Boy, and its detonation marked the third nuclear explosion in history.
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