This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo - a grassroots group established 1956 survivors the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The group has spent decades lobbying governments worldwide the abolition of nuclear weapons. The Nobel committee said Nihon Hidankyo won the award, " its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons". Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only places Earth where such weapons have been used civilian populations. Wikipedia says: "The effects of the atomic bombings killed 90,000 to 166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000 to 80,000 people Nagasaki; roughly half occurred the first day."
The news agency Reuters praised the ongoing legacy Nihon Hidankyo. It wrote: "For decades - thanks large part to the work Nihon Hidankyo - the destruction unleashed the two Japanese cities was widely seen as a lesson history that using nuclear weapons again was too appalling to contemplate." However, rising tensions the world today mean we are closer to the brink nuclear war than ever before. Russia has warned that the USA's support Ukraine increases the risks nuclear conflict. There are fears that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, North Korea has declared it is accelerating efforts to become "a military superpower and a nuclear power".
