Nobel Peace Prize winner Beatrice Fihn warns nuclear war is ‘one tiny tantrum away’ as Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un’s war of words escalates
A NOBEL Peace Prize-winning lawyer has warned that a nuclear holocaust is only "a tiny tantrum" away.
Accepting the award, Beatrice Fihn of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons hit out at strongmen Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, who have spent months trading insults and threatening nuclear devastation.
She said: “A moment of panic or carelessness, a misconstrued comment or bruised ego, could easily lead us unavoidably to the destruction of entire cities.”
";These weapons do not make us safe, they are not a deterrent, they only spur other states to pursue their own nuclear weapons.
He said: “We do not wish for a war but shall not hide from it.
“And should the US miscalculate our patience and light the fuse for a nuclear war, we will surely make the US dearly pay the consequences with our mighty nuclear force which we have consistently strengthened.”
The warning comes just days after the chubby despot's latest ballistic missile test triggered a huge war game simulation by the US and South Korea.
"If you are not comfortable with Kim Jong-Un having nuclear weapons, then you are not comfortable with nuclear weapons.
"If you’re not comfortable with Donald Trump having nuclear weapons, then you are not comfortable with nuclear weapons.”
"The only rational course of action is to cease living under the conditions where our mutual destruction is only one impulsive tantrum away.
"Nuclear weapons are a madman’s gun held permanently to our temple.
"This is the way forward. There is only one way to prevent the use of nuclear weapons – prohibit and eliminate them."
Fihn accepted her award alongside activist Setsuko Thurlow, who was just 13 when nuclear bombing devastated her hometown Hiroshima in 1945.
The 85-year-old told a horrified crowd how she crawled to safety through the rubble of her devastated school, before spotting the scores of dead and wounded lying on the ruined city's streets.
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"Processions of ghostly figures shuffled by," she said. "Grotesquely wounded people, they were bleeding, burnt, blackened and swollen."
"I repeat those words that I heard called to me in the ruins of Hiroshima: ‘Don’t give up. Keep pushing. See the light? Crawl toward it.’"
"Our light is now the ban treaty."
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