Oslo, Norway—The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Japan’s Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors pushing for a nuclear weapons ban, as states like Russia threaten to use them. The group, also known as Hibakusha and founded in 1956, received the honor “for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear […]
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