One America News Network OAN Staff Blake Wolf
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for their activism and humanitarian work in warning and educating the world on the catastrophic aftermath of nuclear weapons.
Nihon Hidankyo was created in 1956 by survivors of the atomic bomb attacks.
Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, stated that the committee “wishes to honor all survivors who, despite physical suffering and painful memories, have chosen to use their costly experience to cultivate hope and engagement for peace.”
The award was presented ahead of the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States in August 1945, which killed 140,000 and forced Japan to surrender, ultimately ending World War Two.
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