Incredibly good luck, True Story Options

[KingByng]

So it's August 6, 1945. Tsutomu Yamaguchi is on a business trip to Hiroshima. He suffers serious burns after the city gets nuked. Spends a day there getting treated, and returns home to Nagasaki right before Nagasaki is nuked.

Now at age 93, Tsutomu Yamaguchi has been listed by the Japanese government as the only known person to survive both nuclear bombings.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7963581.stm


He's either incredibly lucky, or incredibly unlucky. All he suffered were burns. No cancer or anything.

This post has been edited by Yaraday: Mar 27 2009, 08:26 PM

[Crimsonum]

War is not a necessity. If only any country would stop producing or purchasing weapons, it might convince neighbouring countries to do the same thing. Next would be the continent, and eventually, whole world?

Inb4 "UTOPIA!?"

[Corsair]

There's always someone out there who wants to pick a fight; some Alexander III, Cyrus II, Napoleon, or Hitler who thinks they have what it takes. Some treated their conquered better than others but that's not exactly something the conquered knew about prior. Sounds like a plan though, let's throw down our weapons and take a chance.

By the way, genocide doesn't require a gun and it can be sparked by serious matters... like a comic picture in the daily newspaper. Before you know it coup d'etat!

This post has been edited by Corsair: May 14 2009, 07:27 AM

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