Biden congratulates Nobel Peace Prize winners Nihon Hidankyo

US President Joe Biden has congratulated Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization representing survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for winning this year's Nobel Peace Prize. The White House released Biden's statement on Sunday, two days after the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the group as the winner of the prize.

In a statement, Biden sent his congratulations “on behalf of the United States,” where many still think that the August 1945 atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary to end World War II. The statement praised the Japanese national group of hibakusha atomic bomb sufferers “for their historic work to ensure that nuclear weapons are never used again.”