The terror my parents' generation had of a nuclear apocalypse, lest we forget

[Rev. Rye]

And apparently, in the interim between the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, one cop from Hiroshima went to Nagasaki to explain that the police there to duck when the bomb went off. When the bomb dropped there, not a single Nagasaki cop died in the initial blast.

So he knew Nagasaki would be the next target?

To be fair, there were many people who, by an extraordinary coincidence, managed to survive both blasts. The makers of a documentary called Twice Survived: The Doubly Atomic Bombed of Hiroshima and Nagasaki managed to find 165 people who did. It’s a bizarre coincidence, I’ll give you that, but if at least 165 people had the dumb luck to be in Hiroshima when the bomb hit AND end up in Nagasaki a few days later just in time for that bomb to go off, this isn’t quite as far-fetched as it might seem.