Nobel committee chair stresses "nuclear taboo" during Hiroshima visit

Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, during a visit Tuesday to Hiroshima stressed that the "nuclear taboo" must not be confined to the atomic-bombed city but spread worldwide.Frydnes' trip to Japan comes after Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year, with him praising the group for its efforts to achieve a nuclear-free world through witness testimony."We pay tribute to all who were lost, to all survivors -- and to all those who turned pain into hope, and memory into a force for peace," Frydnes wrote…READ FULL ARTICLE