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January 7, 2010

Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Survivor of Both Atomic Bombings, Dies at 93
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And in Japan, the only person known to have survived both US atomic
attacks during World War II has died. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was ninety-three
years old. Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima when the US dropped the first
atomic bomb on August 6th, 1945. He suffered several wounds but returned
to his hometown of Nagasaki, which was bombed three days later. In his
elder years, Yamaguchi became a vocal proponent of nuclear abolition.



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