Nagasaki Atom Bomb Survivor, Nuclear Activist Dies At 88
CBS Local — Sumiteru Taniguchi, who was horribly burned but survived the 1945 atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, has died more than seven decades later at the age of 88.
Taniguchi was a 16-year-old postman in Japan when the U.S. dropped their second bomb on August 9; the first was dropped on Hiroshima three days earlier. The devastating attacks killed over 120,000 people and led to Japan’s surrender a week later, ending World War II.
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