Tsutomu Yamaguchi – A man who survived both atomic bombings (2023)
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Re: Tsutomu Yamaguchi – A man who survived both atomic bombings (2023)
#2I always find it fascinating to hear stories like that and immediately feeling bad that my first thought is: what is the likelihood of this being an identity theft comlared with likelihood that after surviving two atomic bombs one lives up to 93 years?
Re: Tsutomu Yamaguchi – A man who survived both atomic bombings (2023)
#3How haunting. I can't imagine having seen/survived one atomic bomb and then to see the same flash in Nagasaki. He must have thought the U.S. was going to sweep all of Japan. I think I'd head to the mountains.
Re: Tsutomu Yamaguchi – A man who survived both atomic bombings (2023)
#4https://archive.is/IwLEw
But, but, but, I've seen the movie "Threads (1984)" so now I'm an expert and it's not possible.
Also how come all the children in the area can still speak, in "Threads" children mutate and can't speak like a reverse Spiderman.
This seems like Doomer-denial fake news, the movie Threads (1984) was the real one.
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#5I always find it fascinating to hear stories like that and immediately feeling bad that my first thought is: what is the likelihood of this being an identity theft comlared with likelihood that after surviving two atomic bombs one lives up to 93 years?
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#6Incredible that he lived so long despite the exposure
Re: Tsutomu Yamaguchi – A man who survived both atomic bombings (2023)
#7It’s been posted on HN before, but if this topic interests you, John Hersey’s famous reporting on the aftermath at Hiroshima (entitled “Hiroshima”) is worth reading. It’s essentially a short book, but the accounts laid out in the story make the impersonal tragedy into something that’s tangible. It should be required reading.
Re: Tsutomu Yamaguchi – A man who survived both atomic bombings (2023)
#8I always find it fascinating to hear stories like that and immediately feeling bad that my first thought is: what is the likelihood of this being an identity theft comlared with likelihood that after surviving two atomic bombs one lives up to 93 years?
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What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
Re: Tsutomu Yamaguchi – A man who survived both atomic bombings (2023)
#9Re: Tsutomu Yamaguchi – A man who survived both atomic bombings (2023)
#10Here's something even wilder: This guy comes up in GPT-4o queries all the time, because of how ridiculously overindexed it is on Hacker News.