A Japanese atomic bomb survivors group that won the Nobel Peace Prize strongly condemned US President Donald Trump's order for the Defence Department to “immediately” start testing nuclear weapons. They called Trump's directive "utterly unacceptable".

Nobel laureate Nihon Hidankyo reportedly sent a letter of protest to the US embassy in Japan after Trump said on Thursday that he had ordered the Pentagon to start nuclear weapons testing to equal China and Russia.

The directive "directly contradicts the efforts by nations around the world striving for a peaceful world without nuclear weapons and is utterly unacceptable," the survivors group said in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by AFP on Friday.

Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of hibakusha, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2024,

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