Hiroshima survivor group receives Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo

Members of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan’s leading group of atomic bomb survivors, received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Tuesday, with the organisation hoping the achievement will energise the movement for nuclear abolition as heightening geopolitical tensions have created concerns the weapons may be used again.

The group, also known as the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, was chosen for the award on October 11 “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,” according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.