Leaders of the group of atomic bomb survivors awarded the Nobel Peace Prize warns the risk of nuclear war is rising, renewing their call to abolish nuclear weapons.
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00:00Leaders of the group of atomic bomb survivors awarded the Nobel Peace Prize warns the risk
00:05of nuclear war is rising, renewing their call to abolish nuclear weapons.
00:10Shigemitsu Tanaka, a survivor of the 1945 U.S. bombing of Nagasaki and co-head of the
00:16Nihon Hidankyo group, says, the international situation is getting progressively worse and
00:21now wars are being waged as countries threaten the use of nuclear weapons.
00:25Tanaka says, I fear that we as humankind are on the path to self-destruction.
00:30In awarding the survivors, the Norwegian Nobel Committee highlights the devastation of the
00:34atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
00:37The committee says the group's endeavors have critical importance in the world today.
00:41Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled last month that Moscow would consider responding
00:45with nuclear weapons if the U.S. and its allies allow Ukraine to strike Russia with long-range
00:50Western missiles.