![]() For several decades, he didn’t speak publicly about the devastation he witnessed, but in his final years, he felt it was his destiny to speak out against the horrors of nuclear weaponry. Yamaguchi lived another 65 years after the attacks, before dying of stomach cancer at age 93. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb.” Recently, there’s been renewed interest in the origins of atomic weaponry due to the new Christopher Nolan film Oppenheimer about physicist J. The bombings on August 6 and August 9, 1945, are estimated to have killed as many as 226,000 people while completely destroying both cities. “It can tell the younger generation the horrifying history of the atomic bombings even after I die.” “My double radiation exposure is now an official government record,” Yamaguchi said. ![]() Tsutomu Yamaguchi was less than two miles from the blast zones of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and miraculously survived both without debilitating injuries. But there has only ever been one person recognized as a nijyuu hibakusha, or “twice-bombed person.” ![]() About 650,000 people have been recognized by the Japanese government as hibakusha, referring to people who have been directly affected by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
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