This year’s Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a group of Japanese citizens who survived the 1945 atomic bombings during World War II and have spent the decades since advocating against the use of nuclear weapons.

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its commitment to a nuclear weapons-free world. The group, known as Hibakusha,