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This man might have been fast and he might have taken cover, but thousand-pound hunks of stone hurled by a volcano do not care about either of those things, as he found out. Still, if you’re fortunate and fast and take cover, you might end up surviving.

Nuclear weapons are terrifying in their destructive power, but volcanoes have them beat in terms of thermal energy - the Pompeii eruption probably was 100,000 times more energetic than Little Boy and Fat Man. These are the remains of a man found at Pompeii, cause of death relatively obvious.

Yamaguchi died in 2010, of stomach cancer (apparently unrelated to his radiation exposure) at the age of 93. Subsequently, he’d on occasion be referred to as the unluckiest man in the world.īut wait: he was uninjured from the second bomb, and later in life he became a staunch advocate of nuclear disarmament. He was explaining his injuries to his skeptical supervisor when Fat Man went off, coincidentally about the same distance away as his first brush with the atom. He was on a business trip in Hiroshima when Little Boy detonated almost two miles away from him, and though he suffered burns and ruptured eardrums, he felt himself healthy enough to return to work in Nagasaki a few days later. Exactly one person has been officially recognized by the government of Japan as having survived both nuclear bombings - one Tsutomu Yamaguchi.

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