"It is not nuclear arms that have deterred the use of the weapons, but it was what we have done that has deterred the use of them", says a member of Japan's Nihon Hidankyo during a press conference in Tokyo, the day after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. The prize was awarded Friday to the grassroots movement of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors pushing for a nuclear weapons ban.
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00:30The reason why we did not allow the use of nuclear weapons is because we think that it is a demonstration of the atomic bomb and an exercise of the atomic bomb.
00:42So, I think that what we have done is the atomic bomb, not the nuclear bomb.