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Yamaguchi was lucky, though he suffered severe burns, he was able to escape the city by train after the blast and head back to his hometown... Nagasaki.
Meet the Only Man to Ever Be Hit With Two Atomic Bombs and Make It Out Alive
Japanese researchers later learned that roughly 150 people were unlucky enough to be in both in Nagasaki and Hiroshima when the bombs hit, but very few, only a handful, were in both blast zones, within 1.5 mile zone of intense radiation. Across Japan, the assumption was that these people shouldn't have children, that the gamma ray damage would be too heavy, too long-lasting to make child bearing safe.
If You Are Hit By Two Atomic Bombs, Should You Have Kids?