Archive for August 2020
The Man Who Survived the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On this day 75 years ago, Tsutomu Yamaguchi was looking forward to returning home after spending three months on business in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. That morning as the 29-year-old naval engineer walked to the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipyard for his final shift, he heard the drone of an American B-29 bomber overhead. As…
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