The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo.
Key BCS Exam Facts:
- Nihon Hidankyo is a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha.
- The organization received the award "for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again."
- This award highlights the "nuclear taboo" and the global humanitarian consequences of nuclear warfare, which are highly relevant topics for the International Affairs section of the BCS written and preliminary exams.