OSLO, Norway — The Nobel Peace Prize was on Friday awarded to the Japanese anti-nuclear group Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha.
The group, founded in 1956, received the honor 'for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again,' said Jorgen Watne Frydnes, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo.The co-head of the group expressed surprise at winning the award.'Never did I dream this could happen,' Toshiyuki Mimaki told reporters in Tokyo with tears in his eyes.
They can kill millions and would impact the climate catastrophically.''A nuclear war could destroy our civilization,' he warned.The committee noted that nuclear powers are modernizing and upgrading their arsenals, and new countries 'appear to be preparing to acquire nuclear weapons.
Atomic Bomb Survivor Group Nihon Hidankyo Wins Nobel Peace Prize
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