Tearful Japanese celebrate the award of the Nobel Peace Prize 2024. No more hibakusha?

The motivation for the award:

“for efforts aimed at creating a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through eyewitness testimony that nuclear weapons should never be used again.”

“Imagine a blinding light. Then complete darkness. Then silence. And then a scream...”. 

Next year marks the 80th anniversary of the explosion of two American atomic bombs that killed an estimated 120,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A comparable number died of burns and radiation injuries in the months and years that followed.

Modern nuclear weapons have much greater destructive power. They can kill millions of people and have a catastrophic impact on the climate. A nuclear war could destroy our civilization.

Read more in the Ukrainian edition.