Japan's atomic bomb survivors to accept Nobel Prize in Oslo

Oslo: This year s Nobel Peace Prize will be presented Tuesday to Japan s atomic bomb survivors group Nihon Hidankyo, which lobbies against the weapon...

Oslo: This year's Nobel Peace Prize will be presented Tuesday to Japan's atomic bomb survivors' group Nihon Hidankyo, which lobbies against the weapons now resurging as a threat 80 years after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

The three co-chairs of Nihon Hidankyo will accept the prestigious award during a ceremony starting at 1:00 pm (1200 GMT) in Oslo's City Hall, at a time when states like Russia increasingly threaten to break the international taboo on the use of nuclear arms.

"Nuclear weapons and humanity cannot co-exist," one of the three co-chairs, Terumi Tanaka, told a press conference on Monday in the Norwegian capital.

"Humanity may come to its end even before climate change brings its devastating impacts," the 92-year-old said.

Nihon Hidankyo works tirelessly to rid the planet of the weapons of mass destruction, with testimonies from survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, known as "hibakusha".