Doctor recounts serious effects of A-bombing at Pugwash Conference

Masao Tomonaga, honorary director of the Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Genbaku Hospital in the southwestern Japanese city, talks about the serious lingering effects of atomic bombing during a session of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs at Nagasaki University on Nov. 1, 2015. Tomonaga, a survivor of the 1945 bombing, is suffering from leukemia as one of its after-effects. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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