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Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Anti-Nuclear Campaign

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Nuclear disarmament group ICAN executive director Beatrice Fihn holds a banner with their logo after ICAN won the Nobel Peace Prize for its decade-long campaign to rid the world of the atomic bomb as nuclear-fuelled crises swirl over North Korea and Iran, on Oct. 6, 2017, in Geneva. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)
Nuclear disarmament group ICAN executive director Beatrice Fihn holds a banner with their logo after ICAN won the Nobel Peace Prize for its decade-long campaign to rid the world of the atomic bomb as nuclear-fuelled crises swirl over North Korea and Iran, on Oct. 6, 2017, in Geneva. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize. The group won for its efforts to pass a treaty that would ban the use or possession of nuclear weapons.

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson talks with Jeff Carter (@jeffcrtr) of Physicians for Social Responsibility, which helped found ICAN, about the effort to abolish all nuclear weapons.

This segment aired on October 6, 2017.

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