Activists Against Nuclear Weapons Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
Norwegian Nobel Committee chair Berit Reiss-Andersen announces the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize winner as The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons on Oct. 6.
Photographer: Heiko Junge/EPAThe International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons was awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, endorsing a group that’s working to ban atomic weapons at a time when nuclear saber-rattling between the U.S. and North Korea has reached fever pitch.
“The organization is receiving the award for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons,” the Oslo-based Norwegian Nobel Committee said in a statement Friday. The prize also acknowledges ICAN’s “ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons,” it said.