Nobel Peace Prize winner warns nuclear war is ‘one tiny tantrum away’
Beatrice Fihn, leader of ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons), gives an acceptan..
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner has warned that a nuclear disaster is ‘one tiny tantrum away’.
Ican, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, said a ‘nuclear crisis’ could be caused by a ‘bruised ego’, in an apparent reference to US-North Korea tensions.
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Accepting the prize in Oslo on Sunday, the group’s executive director Beatrice Fihn said: ‘The deaths of millions may be one tiny tantrum away.’
She added: ‘We have a choice – the end of nuclear weapons, or the end of us.’
With Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un at the helm of their respective countries, the hostility between the two countries has escalated significantly in 2017.
‘This is the way forward,’ Fihn said, of the campaign to abolish nuclear weapons. ‘There is only one way to prevent the use of nuclear weapons – prohibit and eliminate them.’
She accepted the prize along with leading activist Setsuko Thurlow, who was just 13 when nuclear bombing devastated her hometown Hiroshima in 1945.
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Thurlow said the blast left her buried under the rubble of a school, but she was able to see some light and crawl to safety.
‘Our light now is the ban treaty,’ she said, referring to the treaty that needs another 47 countries to ratify it before it can become binding.
‘I repeat those words that I heard called to me in the ruins of Hiroshima: “Don’t give up. Keep pushing. See the light? Crawl towards it.”‘
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