This year's Nobel Peace Prize goes to Nihon Hidankyo – a group set up in 1956 by survivors of the atomic bombings in Japan. The group has spent decades asking governments to abolish nuclear weapons. The Nobel committee said Nihon Hidankyo won, "for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons". Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only cities to experience the horrors of nuclear bombs. The bombings of the cities killed up to 246,000 people.
Reuters wrote about Nihon Hidankyo. It said the group's work in highlighting "the destruction unleashed on the two Japanese cities was widely seen as a lesson from history that using nuclear weapons again was too appalling to contemplate". However, today we are closer to nuclear war than ever before. Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are increasing this risk. There are fears that Iran is developing nuclear weapons.
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Sources- https://www.reuters.com/world/nobel-prize-is-warning-world-nuclear-brink-2024-10-11/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
- https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241011/p2g/00m/0in/055000c
- https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15463081
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