Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese anti-nuclear weapons group Nihon Hidankyo
USA TodayOCT 11 2024
The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Japan's atomic bomb survivor (hibakusha) group Nihon Hidankyo for its efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
The Norwegian Nobel committee Friday said that Nihon Hidankyo had shown through witness testimony that "nuclear weapons must never be used again.”
The committee has earlier, too, awarded efforts to curb atomic weapons, like the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons in 2017, for instance.