Japan's Atomic Bomb Survivors To Accept Nobel Prize In Oslo

Terumi Tanaka is one of the three co-chairs of Nihon Hidankyo who will accept the Nobel Peace Prize (Credit: AFP)

This year's Nobel Peace Prize will be presented Tuesday to Japan's atomic bomb survivors' group Nihon Hidankyo, which lobbies against the weapons now resurging as a threat 80 years after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

The three co-chairs of Nihon Hidankyo will accept the prestigious award during a ceremony starting at 1:00 pm (1200 GMT) in Oslo's City Hall, at a time when states like Russia increasingly threaten to break the international taboo on the use of nuclear arms.