Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors

Atomic bomb survivors in Japan have won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Nihon Hidankyo is a grassroots movement of people who survived the 1945 nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Nobel committee said the group helped demonstrate through witness testimony “that nuclear weapons must never be used again.”

Here & Now‘s Jane Clayson speaks with M.G. Sheftall, a professor at Shizuoka University in Japan who interviewed atomic bomb survivors for his book “Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses.“

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.