The recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize is a fast-dwindling group of atomic bomb survivors who are facing down the shrinking time they have left to convey the firsthand horror they witnessed 79 years ago.

While there are still more than 106,000 atomic bomb survivors registered in Japan as of March, given that their average age is 85.6 years, there has long been concern that younger

The Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki received the Nobel Prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons.

Leaders of the group of atomic bomb survivors awarded the Nobel Peace Prize warned on Saturday that the risk of nuclear war was rising, renewing their call to abolish nuclear weapons. "The international situation is getting progressively worse,