Nobel Peace Prize winners warn of rising threat of nuclear conflict

Members of Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors, that gained the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, attend a press convention on October 12, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan.
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Leaders of the group of atomic bomb survivors awarded the Nobel Peace Prize warned on Saturday (October 12, 2024) that the chance of nuclear conflict was rising, renewing their name to abolish nuclear weapons.

“The worldwide state of affairs is getting progressively worse, and now wars are being waged as international locations threaten using nuclear weapons,” mentioned Shigemitsu Tanaka, a survivor of the 1945 U.S. bombing of Nagasaki and co-head of the Nihon Hidankyo group.

“I concern that we as humankind are on the trail to self-destruction. The one solution to cease that’s to abolish nuclear,” he mentioned.

In awarding the survivors, the Norwegian Nobel Committee highlighted the devastation of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Japanese group’s decades-long work to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

The group’s endeavours have essential significance on the planet at present, the committee mentioned. It didn’t specify any international locations.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signalled final month that Moscow would take into account responding with nuclear weapons if the U.S. and its allies permit Ukraine to strike deep inside Russia with long-range Western missiles.