Toshiyuki Mimaki, the chairman of Nihon Hidankyo, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, said his foremost wish was to “please abolish nuclear weapons while we are alive.”

Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots group of atomic bomb survivors from Japan, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel committee lauded the organization’s efforts to “achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.

Nobel established the Nobel Peace Prize and other awards that bear his name in his will. An economic award, administered by the foundation, was added separately and will be announ