Nobel Peace Prize winner Nihon Hidankyo calls for abolition of nuclear weapons

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Three survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan collected the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday on behalf of Nihon Hidankyo, an organization that campaigns against nuclear weapons.

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00:00A 92-year-old Japanese man who lived through the American atomic bombing of Nagasaki called

00:07for an abolition of all nuclear weapons as he accepted this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

00:12The prize was awarded to Nihon Hirinaku, a grassroots movement of Japanese atomic bombing

00:17survivors who work to maintain a taboo around the use of nuclear weapons.

00:52was weakening, expressing sadness and anger at Israeli and Russian threats of the possibility

00:57at using nuclear weapons.

01:01Nuclear weapons have grown exponentially in powers and numbers since being used by the

01:05US on Japan in the Second World War.

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