Hidankyo hopes to expand antinuke movement through Nobel award ceremony

Members of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors that won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, on Monday said they plan to highlight the devastation caused by nuclear weapons and give a boost to movements advocating their abolition when they travel to Oslo for the award ceremony.The group, also known as the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, held a press conference in Tokyo ahead of its members' departure for the Norwegian capital. Some 30 Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombing survivors are expected to participate in the ceremony on Dec. 10."We …READ FULL ARTICLE