I was saddened to hear of the death of Tsutomu Yamaguchi the only man to have survived not one but two atom bombs.In 1945, on a business trip to Hiroshima, he was temporarily blinded and deafened, as well as being horrifically burnt.
Three days later, back home at work in Nagasaki, 300kms away, the same white light filled the room.
"I thought the mushroom cloud had followed me from Hiroshima", he later explained.
The atom bombs were the greatest single attacks on civilian life ever, causing nearly quarter-of-a-million people in a matter of moments in those two Japanese cities.
I have campaigned for the abolition of atom bombs ever since I found about them as a teenager. I believe them to be immoral and unjustifiable in any situation.
The passing of Yamaguchi-San brings to an end a shameful and horrendous chapter in human history.
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