Oslo –
Japan’s atomic bomb survivors’ group Nihon Hidankyo accepted its Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday, urging countries to abolish the weapons resurging as a threat 80 years after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
One of the three co-chairs of Nihon Hidankyo who accepted the prize, 92-year-old Nagasaki survivor Terumi Tanaka, demanded “action from governments to achieve” a nuclear-free world.
The prize was presented at a formal ceremony in Oslo’s City Hall at a time when countries like Russia — which has the world’s largest nuclear arsenal — increasingly brandish the atomic threat.
