Hidakanyo receives accolade for campaign to rid world of nuclear weapons by ‘describing the indescribable’

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Survivors of the atomic bombings of Japan almost eight decades ago have won the Nobel peace prize for their campaign to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

The Japan Confederation of A-Bomb and H-Bomb Sufferers’ Organisations – commonly known as Hidankyo – received the accolade one year before the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and at a time of growing concern about the possible use of nuclear weapons.