Tsutomu Yamaguchi: The Man Who Lived Through Two Nuclear Bombings — Transcript

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1. 0:00this Flash it's like a thousand
2. 0:03lightning at the same time it it was so
3. 0:07strong hi
4. 0:10burned and blackened and swollen parts
5. 0:13of the bodies were missing
6. 0:16unrecognizably burned the sky at the
7. 0:20mall that you can do it but I knew that
8. 0:22was a myth what do you know about the
9. 0:26consequences of using the nuclear
10. 0:29weapons in real life thank God that is
11. 0:33still nothing these poor people
12. 0:35experienced all the terrible aftermaths
13. 0:38of the tests of the two atomic bombs
14. 0:41dropped on August 6th and August 9th on
15. 0:45Hiroshima and Nagasaki one of them was
16. 0:49today's hero of our series about
17. 0:52survivors to tomu Yamaguchi
18. 0:55a Japanese draftsman from Nagasaki who
19. 0:58designs oil chunkers Yamaguchi was in
20. 1:02Hiroshima on business for his employer
21. 1:04Mitsubishi heavy Industries
22. 1:08heading to the train station to leave
23. 1:10the city and go home he was walking to
24. 1:14the docks when an American B-29 Enola
25. 1:18Gay bomba dropped an atomic bomb at 8 15
26. 1:22am near the city center just three
27. 1:26kilometers away
28. 1:28this was the American bomb named little
29. 1:32boy
30. 1:33a project of the Los Alamos National
31. 1:36Laboratory the bomb contained 64
32. 1:40kilograms of extremely highly enriched
33. 1:43uranium which about 700 grams was
34. 1:47directly involved in the nuclear chain
35. 1:50reaction
36. 1:51the mass defect during the nuclear
37. 1:54reaction was about 600 milligrams this
38. 1:58is amount of material was converted into
39. 2:01energy
40. 2:02according to Einstein's formula it
41. 2:06corresponds to an explosion energy of 13
42. 2:09to 18
43. 2:11000 tons of tnticism
44. 2:28foreign
45. 2:42the explosion ruptured his eardrums
46. 2:45temporarily blinded and even left him
47. 2:48bolt and left him with severe radiation
48. 2:52burns on the left side of his upper body
49. 2:56upon arriving home at 11 am on August 9
50. 3:011945. Yamaguchi has been describing to
51. 3:05his boss the explosion in Hiroshima when
52. 3:09the American boxcar bomba dropped on the
53. 3:12city the fat man is the next atomic bomb
54. 3:17it's worked on the basis of the DK of
55. 3:20plutonium
56. 3:21239 and had an implosive detonation
57. 3:25scheme
58. 3:26the plutonium core of this Bond weighing
59. 3:29about 6 Kilograms and was surrounded by
60. 3:33a massive shell of uranium
61. 3:36238
62. 3:38amazingly his workplace was again three
63. 3:41kilometers from the epicenter but at
64. 3:45this time he was not affected by the
65. 3:48explosion
66. 3:49miraculously his wife and son also
67. 3:53survived
68. 3:54however he was unable to replace his
69. 3:58already ruined bandages and suffered
70. 4:01from a high fever and constant vomiting
71. 4:04for more than a week still experiencing
72. 4:07symptoms of radiation sickness including
73. 4:11cataracts and acute leukemia Yamaguchi
74. 4:14worked as a translator for the occupying
75. 4:18forces during the Allied occupation of
76. 4:21Japan
77. 4:22later he returned to work for Mitsubishi
78. 4:25he designed oil chunkers again
79. 4:28however in 1957 the Japanese government
80. 4:32officially acknowledged he has been only
81. 4:35in Nagasaki at the time of the explosion
82. 4:39soon Yamaguchi became a vocal supporter
83. 4:43of nuclear disarmament he told an
84. 4:46interview the reason I hate of the
85. 4:49atomic Cubone is because of the fat
86. 4:51people's dignity
87. 4:53foreign
88. 5:02and the end of the story the government
89. 5:05of Japan in 2009 officially recognized
90. 5:10Yamaguchi as the only person to survive
91. 5:13both nuclear explosions in Japan his
92. 5:17wife also received radiation poisoning
93. 5:20from Black Rain after the Nagasaki
94. 5:23explosion and died in 2008 from kidney
95. 5:27and liver cancer all three of their
96. 5:30children reported health problems they
97. 5:33blamed on the impacts on their parents
98. 5:37the only Japanese Atomic Survivor to
99. 5:40Tomo Yamaguchi diet of stomach cancer on
100. 5:44January 4th 2010 in Nagasaki he was 93.
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102. 6:08foreign
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