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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Fanny Brodersen and Vanessa Gera

Nobel Peace Prize winner urges Putin to understand the destructiveness of nuclear weapons

Norway Nobel Peace Prize - (Javad Parsa / NTB)

Terumi Tanaka, a survivor of the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan and the representative of an organization that won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, called on Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday to stop making nuclear threats.

The 92-year-old spoke at a news conference in Oslo, Norway, a day before a ceremony where he is to deliver a lecture on behalf of Nihon Hidankyo, an organization of survivors of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that won this year's prize.

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