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Japan's atomic bomb survivors to accept Nobel Prize in Oslo "Nuclear weapons and humanity cannot coexist," says Nagasaki bombing survivor By AFP | December 10, 2024 Terumi Tanaka representing the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize winner, the Nihon Hidankyo group, as he gives a press conference in Oslo, Norway, on December 9, 2024. — AFP Nihon Hidankyo receives Nobel for nuclear disarmament advocacy. Nobel Committee calls nuclear weapons morally unacceptable. Terumi Tanaka warns humanity risks ending before climate change. OSLO: This year’s Nobel Peace Prize will be presented Tuesday to Japan’s atomic bomb survivors’ group Nihon Hidankyo, which lobbies against the weapons now resurging as a threat 80 years after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. The three co-chairs of Nihon Hidankyo will accept the prestigious award during a ceremony starting at 1pm (1200 GMT) in Oslo’s City Hall, at a time when states like Russia increasingly threaten to break the international taboo on the use o...