Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Revisiting horrors of the atomic bombings

A photo dated September 1945 of the remains of the Prefectural Industry Promotion Building after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. The Nobel Peace Prize was on October 11, 2024 awarded to the Japanese anti-nuclear group Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha. [AFP]

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors who are advocating for "a world free of nuclear weapons".

The survivors are from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two cities that the United States dropped nuclear bombs on in 1945 at the end of World War II.