Thurlow said the Hiroshima blast left her buried under the rubble, but she was able to see light and crawl to safety. In the same way, the campaign she is part of now is a driving force behind an international treaty to ban nuclear weapons, she said after ICAN received the Nobel prize it won in October. "Our light now is the ban treaty," Thurlow said. The treaty has been signed by 56 countries — none of them nuclear powers — and ratified by only three. There is only one way to prevent the use of nuclear weapons — prohibit and eliminate them," Fihn said.

Source: ABC News December 10, 2017 14:05 UTC