It also focuses on the roles played by the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organization (Nihon Hidankyo) and the Japan Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (JALANA), which made tremendous contributions facilitating the success of the World Court Project in the 1990s and the Humanitarian Initiative in the 2010s that led to the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. [...] Regardless, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists once featured Frances Crowe for her activism in peace movements against nuclear weapons and nuclear energy.6 Magno emphasises the role of a Catholic group in the US called the Plowshares,7 which uses biblical language as a strategy to emphasise the need to protect humanity from the threat of nuclear weapons. [...] In identifying the source of the problem as the need to ban nuclear weapons due to their humanitarian consequences, the movement is put in the opposite position of the Japanese government, which is against TPNW. [...] Hence, the five nuclear powers (China, France, the US, Russia and the UK) under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the UN have been targeted specifically. [...] Victims of nuclear tests also spoke to strengthen the argument.114 The voices of survivors, shut out from security-based nuclear discourse, were instead at the centre of the humanitarian discourse.115 Ultimately, the three conferences gave legitimacy to hibakusha and victims of nuclear tests for their unilateral message of banning nuclear weapons due to the humanitarian consequences.
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