Bomb survivors use Nobel Peace Prize win to share anti-nuclear message

Terumi Tanaka is the co-chairperson of Nihon Hidankyo (AP)

The recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize is a fast-dwindling group of atomic bomb survivors who are facing down the shrinking time they have left to convey the first-hand horror they witnessed 79 years ago.

Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese organisation of survivors of the US atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was awarded the prize for its decades-long activism against nuclear weapons.