A 92-year-old Japanese survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki described the horrors he witnessed in 1945 as he accepted this year’s Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday on behalf of his anti-nuclear weapons group.
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in October to Nihon Hidankyo, which is made up of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a group also known as hibakusha.
The organization, founded in 1956, has battled for nearly 70 years to eliminate nuclear weapons globally by aiming to maintain a taboo around their use.
“It is naive to believe our civilization can survive a world order in which global security depends on nuclear weapons,” he said.
“The world is not meant to be a prison in which we await collective annihilation.”A torchlight procession in honor of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nihon Hidankyo in Oslo on Tuesday.
Persons:
Nihon, hastening, Terumi Tanaka, ”, Tanaka, Nihon Hidankyo, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, North Korea —, “, Frydnes, Russia —, Odd Andersen, ” Tanaka, ” “, maiming
Organizations:
Ukraine, Norwegian Nobel, International, Nuclear, AFP, Getty
Locations:
Nagasaki, Hiroshima, United States, Russia, Israel, Gaza, Palestine, Oslo, “, Norwegian, China, France, United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, North Korea, Britain, U.S