FEATURE: Nagasaki survivor-doctor works for nuke-free world into his 80s

Masao Tomonaga was aged 2 and in bed with a fever at his home in Nagasaki when the second atomic bomb used in war exploded above the city on Aug. 9, 1945.The blast that killed nearly 74,000 in the southwestern Japan city by the end of 1945 led the now 81-year-old doctor on a path to studying radiation's effect on leukemia and other cancers in survivors.Now an honorary director of the Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Genbaku Hospital, he also fulfills roles including as chairperson of the survivors' group Nagasaki Prefecture Hibakusha Association and running a care home for those affected by the …READ FULL ARTICLE