Two years ago, Nihon Hidankyō, a Japanese grassroots organization of atomic bomb survivors, received the Nobel Peace Prize for its decades-long crusade against nuclear weapons. We talked to Hidankyō secretary general Hamasumi Jirō about the impact of the Nobel on the movement and efforts to pass...
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