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This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been to Nihon Hidankyo - a grassroots group in 1956 by survivors of the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The group has decades governments worldwide for the abolition of nuclear weapons. The Nobel committee said Nihon Hidankyo
the award, "for its efforts to a world free of nuclear weapons". Hiroshima and Nagasaki the only places on Earth where such weapons have been on civilian populations. Wikipedia : "The effects of the atomic bombings 90,000 to 166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000 to 80,000 people in Nagasaki; roughly half on the first day."

The news agency Reuters the ongoing legacy of Nihon Hidankyo. It wrote: "For decades - thanks in large part to the work of Nihon Hidankyo - the destruction on the two Japanese cities was widely as a lesson from history that nuclear weapons again was too appalling to ." However, rising tensions in the world today we are closer to the brink of nuclear war than ever before. Russia has that the USA's support of Ukraine increases the risks of nuclear conflict. There are fears that Iran is nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, North Korea has it is efforts to become "a military superpower and a nuclear power".