OSLO: Nuclear disarmament group ICAN won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its decade-long campaign to rid the world of the atomic bomb as nuclear-fuelled crises swirl over North Korea and Iran. However, the accord was largely symbolic as none of the nine known world nuclear powers signed up to it. It secured a significant victory in July this year when the United Nations adopted a new treaty outlawing nuclear weapons. “We’re not done yet… The job isn’t done until nuclear weapons are gone,” ICAN chief Beatrice Fihn told Agence France-Presse this week. “I can imagine a world without nuclear weapons, and I support ICAN,” the Dalai Lama declares.

Source: Manila Times October 06, 2017 09:25 UTC