As a warning to nations possessing nuclear weapons not to use them, the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, earned the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
Members of the group, also known as Hibakusha, have devoted their lives to the fight for a world free of nuclear weapons after being there for the deployment of the only two nuclear bombs in history.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee cited Hibakusha as obtaining the Peace Prize “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.”
“The Hibakusha enable us to think the unthinkable, describe the inexpressible, and comprehend the inexplicable suffering.”
