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00:00A nuclear bomb explodes just three kilometers from Susumoto Yamaguchi.
00:06He's burned, blinded, but somehow survives.
00:10He makes it back to his hometown of Nagasaki to recover.
00:16August 9th, three days later, he's at work telling his boss about the Hiroshima bombing
00:23when suddenly, kaboom, the second atomic bomb hits Nagasaki.
00:29Again, he's three kilometers from ground zero, and yet again, he survives.
00:37So, Tumoyama Gachu became the only person officially recognized to survive both atomic bombings.
00:45He lived to 93, became a peace advocate, and proved that the most unbelievable stories
00:54in history are sometimes true.
00:57The unluckiest man who ever lived.
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