"The only people who should be allowed to govern countries with nuclear weapons are mothers, those who are still breast-feeding their babies."
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who lived in Hiroshima when it was hit by an atomic bomb, survived, chose to move to Nagasaki, which was then hit by another atomic bomb, and survived that, too, living until 2010, all according to Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (New York: Viking, 2011), p. 684
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