He Survived Hiroshima... Then It Happened Again #history #wwii #worldwar2 #hiroshima

Ajouté : 2026-06-07

[00:00:01]Hiroshima should have been the end of his story. Instead, it was only the beginning.

[00:00:07]When the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima in August 1945, the city vanished beneath a blinding flash.

[00:00:15]Buildings collapsed. Fires spread for miles, and tens of thousands of people were killed.

[00:00:21]At the center of the devastation was a man named Tsutomu Yamaguchi.

[00:00:25]The shockwave hurled him through the [music] air.

[00:00:28]His body was burned. His eardrums were ruptured. Yet somehow, he survived.

[00:00:35]The next day, injured and barely able to hear, Yamaguchi began the long journey home.

[00:00:41]He believed the nightmare was finally over.

[00:00:44]His destination [music] was Nagasaki, a city he thought was far from the destruction he had just escaped.

[00:00:51]Three days later, Yamaguchi was back at work.

[00:00:55]As he described the horrors of Hiroshima, many of [music] his co-workers struggled to believe how could a single bomb destroy an entire city?

[00:01:05]Then, without warning, the sky turned white.

[00:01:10]In that moment, [music] Yamaguchi knew exactly what was happening.

[00:01:14]The impossible had happened.

[00:01:17]A second atomic bomb had exploded over Nagasaki.

[00:01:21]For the second time in just 3 days, Tsutomu Yamaguchi found himself near the most destructive weapon ever used in war.

[00:01:28]And for the second time, he survived.

[00:01:31]To this day, he remains the only person officially recognized by Japan as a survivor of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.