Nobel Peace Prize Winner Urges Putin to Understand the Destructiveness of Nuclear Weapons

The representative of the winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, Terumi Tanaka, signs the guest book at the Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway, on Dec. 9, 2024, on the eve of the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. Javad Parsa/NTB/AFP via Getty Images

OSLO, Norway—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.