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Toshiyuki Mimaki was just 3 when he saw the flash from the nuclear weapon that wiped out some 100,000 lives in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. Nearly eight decades latermega swerte, as a leader of Nihon Hidankyo, a group of fellow atomic bomb survivors that received the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, he renewed his plea to abolish nuclear weapons.

“We don’t have much life left anymore,” said Mr. Mimaki, who is now 82. “I am not sure I will be alive next year.”

Other survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks by the United States reacted to the news of the Peace Prize with a mix of surprise, bittersweet joy and renewed determination in their mission, which has grown ever more urgent as the number of living witnesses to the bombings has dwindled.

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