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Posted on 08/08/2025 3:27:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Nuke free hat nonsense ?
The anti-nuclear crowd will ignore that.
I know a fellow who “survived” 2 ground level, post-World War II nuclear bomb test blasts, that he observed wearing only his uniform and a special set of goggles, no other protection other than jumping into a trench, as a “test dummy.”
His skin was affected, such that, large finger-tip sized “blisters” formed all around his face and neck, where his skin had “dripped.” The sores healed but the formation of the blister-bubbles remained.
He was 85-86 years old, when I met him. I offered to help him get an appointment with a skin doctor - “just in case” this fellow decided to consult . . . but he did not show up.
I am thankful that the bombs used on Japan, were used at THE END of World War II <— as a warning for all, to never again use them.
Is he Chuck Norris’ father.
Reminds me of this three-legged, blind poodle, “Lucky”.
I know people who have survived exposure to “nuclear waste” - but the affect upon their skin, is bizarre and terrible, visibly. Yet, they live mostly like “ordinary people.”
In the “good old days” of disposing of nuclear waste, the stuff was dumped “here” and “there.” And some people somehow manage to stumble onto it, or effectively drink the net-result that ends up in the water.
Definitely a guy that should avoid Vegas, or gambling in any form, for that matter.
He was an example of why it’s not always good to be like Forrest Gump.
Poet and City Lights Bookstore owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021) commanded a small ship as part of the D-Day invasion of Normandy. The submarine chaser, the SC-1308 as a US Navy Lieutenant.
Then he happened to be sent in with the occupation forces where the Nagasaki A bomb blast destruction could be observed 6 weeks after the blast.
I survived both terms of Barack Obama.
That should count for something.
Guy was a fortunate son. My gramps was a doc, did the whole no lead for X-Rays and worked awhile at the Yuma Test station...died of an inoperable sarcoma in his neck
I remember reading of him decades ago! Lucky Man!
He died in 2010 at the age of 93. So he was just slightly younger than my father, who died in 2010 shortly after his 94th birthday. My father would likely have taken part in the invasion of Japan if the bombs had not been dropped (at the time he was recovering from injuries suffered on Okinawa). I wouldn’t be alive.
The bombs were the right thing to do. In the long run it saved millions of Japanese lives and hundreds of thousands of US lives if we had to invade the islands to get a surrender, and so much more hatred between the two sides would have been generated, we would not have acted to get them on their feet again like we did afterwards. There would have been so much more hatred on each side.
Even more interesting is a story of Albert Stevens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stevens
The most radioactive human, ever.
Injected by mistake with huge dose of radioactive plutonium, he lived full. healthy life.
He died of heart disease 20 years later.
You can’t hug a child with nuclear arms!
The poor guy.
I’m sure his story is worth reading about, but this is one of the worst written articles I have ever read.
Our government started out OK and turned very quickly to the dark side.
Such evil was done by it.
Unreal.
Pinging you to a follow up story - guy survived both atomic bombs “But the family of Yamaguchi feared he looked too healthy, which would undermine the message of survivors.”
The guy lived to 94.
Thank you for posting. Just the other day while traveling I heard that a man had survived both bombs and it was on my to do list to check it.
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