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Japanese activists from the Nihon Hidankyo anti-nuclear weapon campaign group attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony this year. Photo by Rune Hellestad/Getty Images.

Young people must fight for a nuclear-free world, Nobel laureate group says

Young people must take up the fight for a nuclear-free world, with atomic weapons now many times more powerful than in the past, a representative for this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate, atomic bomb survivors' group Nihon Hidankyo, said.

The nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 9th August 1945 during world war two. Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Nobel Peace Prize focuses on nuclear threat, awarded to Japanese bomb survivors’ group

In 1945 the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Nobel laureate and Belarusian dissident Bialiatski now three years behind bars

It has been three years since Ales Bialiatski, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and the head of the Belarusian human rights center Viasna has been imprisoned.