Japan, U.S. experts lay groundwork for accessible A-bomb study archive

Philip Montgomery, an archivist of the Texas Medical Center Library, is interviewed by Kyodo News at the headquarters of the Japanese news agency in Tokyo on Feb. 2, 2015. Montgomery is collaborating with Japanese experts to develop a digital archive related to the effects of atomic bomb radiation on the human body. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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