He Was at Ground Zero Twice — and Outlived Almost Everyone
In August 1945, a Japanese engineer named Tsutomu Yamaguchi was close enough to two separate atomic bomb blasts to have his eardrums blown out — and he walked away from both. Decades passed before the Japanese government officially acknowledged what he'd been quietly telling people for years: that one man had somehow survived the end of the world, twice.
Mar 13, 2026