TOKYO (Reuters) -Leaders of the group of atomic bomb survivors awarded the Nobel Peace Prize warned on Saturday that the danger of nuclear conflict was rising, renewing their name to abolish nuclear weapons.
“The international situation is getting progressively worse, and now wars are being waged as countries threaten the use of nuclear weapons,” stated Shigemitsu Tanaka, a survivor of the 1945 U.S. bombing of Nagasaki and co-head of the Nihon Hidankyo group.
“I fear that we as humankind are on the path to self-destruction. The only way to stop that is to abolish nuclear,” he stated.
In awarding the survivors, the Norwegian Nobel Committee highlighted the devastation of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Japanese group’s decades-long work to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
The group’s endeavours have important significance on the earth at present, the committee stated. It didn’t specify any international locations.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signalled final month that Moscow would take into account responding with nuclear weapons if the U.S. and its allies permit Ukraine to strike deep inside Russia with long-range Western missiles.
