Nobel Peace Prize winners warn of rising risk of nuclear war
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.