Reiterating their call to end the use of nuclear weapons, the leaders of the group of survivors of the atomic bomb who received the Nobel Peace Prize issued a warning on Saturday that the risk of nuclear war was increasing.
Shigemitsu Tanaka, co-head of the Nihon Hidankyo organization and a survivor of the US bombing of Nagasaki in 1945, stated, “The international situation is getting progressively worse, and now wars are being waged as countries threaten the use of nuclear weapons.”
I worry that humanity is on the verge of self-destruction. Nuclear disarmament is the only way to put an end to that, “he stated.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee emphasized the devastation caused by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as the Japanese group’s decades-long effort to eliminate nuclear weapons from the world in awarding the survivors.
The gathering’s undertakings have basic significance in this present reality, the council said. It did not mention any nations.
Last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin made it clear that if the United States and its allies permit Ukraine to use long-range Western missiles to strike deep inside Russia, Moscow would consider using nuclear weapons to respond.
