Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, 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, known in Japan as "Hibakusha", have dedicated their lives to the struggle for a nuclear-free world.
Without naming specific countries, Joergen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, warned that nuclear nations should not contemplate using atomic weapons.
Next year will mark the 80th anniversary of the dropping of nuclear bombs by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has regularly focused on the issue of nuclear weapons, most recently with its award to ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which won the award in 2017.
It is the second Nobel Peace Prize for a Japanese recipient in the prize’s 123-year history, 50 years after former Prime Minister Eisaku Sato won it in 1974 “for his contribution to stabilize conditions in the Pacific Rim area and for signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty”.
Without naming specific countries, Joergen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, warned that nuclear nations should not contemplate using atomic weapons.
Next year will mark the 80th anniversary of the dropping of nuclear bombs by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has regularly focused on the issue of nuclear weapons, most recently with its award to ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which won the award in 2017.
It is the second Nobel Peace Prize for a Japanese recipient in the prize’s 123-year history, 50 years after former Prime Minister Eisaku Sato won it in 1974 “for his contribution to stabilize conditions in the Pacific Rim area and for signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty”.
The Nobel Peace Prize, worth 11 million Swedish crowns, or about $1 million, is due to be presented in Oslo on December 10, the anniversary of the death of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who founded the awards in his 1895 will.“We rose up. We shared our stories of survival. We said: humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.”
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 11, 2024
Setsuko Thurlow (pictured) was just 13 years old when an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the city she lived in. She is one of the Hibakusha - the survivors of the… pic.twitter.com/LvWM2rqki3
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