Madrid, Spain - January 16, 2025 The Japanese anti-nuclear organization Nihon Hidankyo, Nobel Peace Prize 2024, warned Thursday in Madrid, in the words of its co-president, Shigemitsu Tanaka, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, that “nuclear weapons should not exist” because they have been created to “kill and annihilate”. Camera: RAMÓN AYALA. STATEMENTS IN JAPANESE BY SHIGEMITSU TANAKA, HIBAKUSHA OF NAGASAKI AND CO-CHAIRMAN OF THE 2024 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE-WINNING ORGANIZATION NIHON HIDANKYO, FORMED BY SURVIVORS OF THE HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI BOMBINGS. If politicians knew what nuclear bombs and all these nuclear weapons bring with them, they would move immediately to abolish, to eliminate all bombs. But today, countries are moving towards upgrading and increasing nuclear weapons and thus defending themselves by threatening the enemy. But right now there are more than 12300 nuclear weapons, of which 4000 are ready to be launched with a single button, which would wipe out all of humanity. Human beings cannot live with nuclear weapons because they were created to kill and annihilate. At that moment I heard the deafening noise of a bomber and at the age of 4 I was looking for the source of that noise. When I turned my face towards Nagasaki and saw a white light that almost blinded me and a few seconds later came a hurricane wind and the deafening noise. This photo was taken by the U.S. military plane 2 days before the nuclear bomb was fired. The thick red dot is the epicenter. Two days later, after the nuclear bomb, the houses and the whole city were like this. There is no trace of the houses left. Everything razed and burned. At that time there were still many corpses of the burned people, alive, buried, who could not escape. When I received the news that we were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, I was on the flight from Tokyo to Nagasaki. There were four of us and until then since 1985 we were nominated again and again. We had not received the Nobel Peace Prize, until 2017 we thought it would be our turn, but since we did not receive any news, no hint, it was kind of half forgotten. But at that moment, when we received the news, it felt like: “that's great, let's go”. An explosive joy among the three of us who shook hands on the plane. [Restrictions: Spain, Latin America, or the U.S. Hispanic market]