OSLO: Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday (Oct 11), in a warning to countries who have nuclear weapons not to use them. Witnesses to the only two nuclear bombs ever to be used in conflict, membe

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization representing Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors, for its efforts to promote a nuclear-free world.

Nihon Hidankyo works to eradicate nuclear weapons

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons. Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said the award was made as the “taboo against the use of nuclear…

Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, has been awarded the prize, in a warning to countries that have nuclear weapons not to use them.

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons.

Smith also lauded the Nobel Committee for focusing attention on the human cost of nuclear weapons and the current geopolitical risks:

Japanese atomic bomb survivor organization Nihon Hidankyo won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

A grassroots group of survivors formed after the 1945 atomic bombings in Japan reacted with tears and dire warnings on Friday after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee nominated Nihon Hidankyo "for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness…

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The Hibakusha help us to describe the indescribable, to think the unthinkable, and to somehow grasp the incomprehensible pain and suffering caused by nuclear weapons, it said.

A leader of the atomic bomb survivors' group Nihon Hidankyo, which won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts against nuclear arms, urged the world Saturday to abolish the weapons as an "issue for all humanity" to solve. A day after winning the prize, heads of the organization gathered…

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