Delhi:
Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo has been conferred with the Nobel Peace Prize 2024 for its efforts to attain a world freed from nuclear weapons.
The organisation is a grassroots motion of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also called Hibakusha, which strives to “obtain a world freed from nuclear weapons and for demonstrating by means of witness testimony that nuclear weapons must not ever be used once more”.
While asserting this 12 months’s Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee honoured the atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki for cultivating hope for peace by means of “their pricey expertise”. “They assist us to explain the indescribable, to suppose the unthinkable, and to one way or the other grasp the incomprehensible ache and struggling attributable to nuclear weapons,” the committee acknowledged on X.
The committee additionally highlighted that no nuclear weapon has been utilized in conflict in almost 80 years. Acknowledging Nihon Hidankyo’s efforts in direction of the institution of a nuclear taboo, the Nobel Committee additionally help that the identical is underneath stress.
By drawing on private tales, creating academic campaigns primarily based on their very own expertise, and issuing pressing warnings in opposition to the unfold and use of nuclear weapons, the organisation has helped consolidate opposition to nuclear weapons, stated a Nobel Committee press launch.
“The nuclear powers are modernising and upgrading their arsenals, new international locations seem like getting ready to accumulate nuclear weapons, and threats are being made to make use of nuclear weapons in ongoing warfare. At this second in human historical past, it’s value reminding ourselves what nuclear weapons are: probably the most damaging weapons the world has ever seen,” a press launch acknowledged.
Meanwhile, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to scientists David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, whereas the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the invention of microRNA and its function in gene regulation.
South Korean author Han Kang, was awarded 2024 the Nobel Prize in Literature, “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historic traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
American John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton gained the Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering work within the improvement of synthetic intelligence. Shortly after the award’s announcement, Hinton raised considerations concerning the expertise he has created.
The prize comes with a gold medal, a diploma and a prize sum of $1 million (913,000 euro).