Aidan MacCarthy, from Cork, of the RAF, survived Dunkirk, the fall of Singapore, a Japanese prisoner of war camp and ... Nagasaki. Photograph: The Irish Times Eighty years ago today, the second – and hopefully last – atomic bomb used in warfare was dropped. The city of Nagasaki was incinerated in a millisecond, as Hiroshima had been three days previously. Aidan MacCarthy, a doctor from Cork, who had been a prisoner of the Japanese since the fall of Singapore in 1942, anticipated that day would be his last. He was based in a prison camp near the Mitsubishi factory in...