The recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize is a fast-dwindling group of atomic bomb survivors. They're increasingly worried about their old age and the limited time to convey the firsthand horror they witnessed 79 years ago.

Toshiyuki Mimaki, the chairman of Nihon Hidankyo, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, said his foremost wish was to “please abolish nuclear weapons while we are alive.”

By Gwladys Fouche, Nora Buli OSLO (Reuters) -Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, in a warning to countries who have nuclear weapons not to use them.