On Friday, the grassroots movement of Hibakusha survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki known as Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee stated in its citation that “Hibakusha is receiving 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 fight for a nuclear-free world has been the lifelong mission of witnesses to the only two nuclear bombs ever used in combat.
The committee stated, “The Hibakusha help us to describe the indescribable, think the unthinkable, and somehow comprehend the incomprehensible pain and suffering caused by nuclear weapons.”
