The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/nuclear-bombs/)
His mother had to rescue him from the second floor before their house burned to the ground, but, because the bomb was dropped farther from its initial target, Tomonaga survived the blast.
I think we often forget just how terrifying nuclear weapons actually are. They may be fun to see used in films, but never in reality. The two bombs dropped Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain the only ever nuclear devices used in warfare and, as anyone who has taken high school history knows, the results were beyond catastrophic. Tens of thousands of people died from the blasts alone, with many tens of thousands more dying from radiation years later. Exact numbers are uncertain, but estimates state that about 80,000 and 40,000 people were killed by the explosions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively.