Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki that works toward a world free of nuclear weapons.

The award was announced Friday at a news conference in Oslo, Norway by Norwegian Nobel Committee Chairman Joergen Watne Frydnes. He said the group was receiving the peace prize for "demonstrating throu