On 6 August 1945, he was in Hiroshima, preparing to return home from a business trip when the American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb on the city. Yamaguchi lived, while 140,000 other people who were in the city that morning died, some in an agonising instant, others many months later.

Burned and barely able to comprehend what had happened – only that he had witnessed a bomb unlike any used before – Yamaguchi spent a fitful night in an air raid shelter before returning home the following day.

That home, 180 miles to the west, was Nagasaki. His arrival came the day before it was devastated by a second US atomic bomb on 9 August.

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It can be hard to tell what is real and what is not in this age of digital manipulation and instant information. I am stating this because I cannot tell you for certain that what Mr. Brown does is for real. I do know that he is very popular in Britain, and would therefore be under a great deal of scrutiny.

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