The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to the Japanese anti-atomic weapons organization Nihon Hidankyo, which brings together survivors of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Nihon Hidankyo “receives the Peace Prize for his efforts for a world without nuclear weapons and for demonstrating, through testimonies, that nuclear weapons must never be used again “, said the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes.
Jørgen Watne Frydnes a jugé vendredi « alarming » that the “ taboo on the use of nuclear weapons ” either “ put under pressure. No nuclear weapons have been used in war in almost 80 years “, he observed. “ It is therefore alarming to note that today, this taboo against the use of nuclear weapons is under pressure », he added at a time when nuclear weapons are mentioned in the speeches surrounding the war in Ukraine.
“Special responsibility”
The nuclear powers, the largest of which are Russia, the United States, China, the United Kingdom and France, have a “ special responsibility » in the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, he concluded.
