A winner of one of this year’s Nobel Peace Prizes warned Sunday that a “moment of panic” could lead to nuclear war and mass destruction.
“We have a choice: the end of nuclear weapons, or the end of us,” said Beatrice Fihn, executive director of Ican, during her acceptance speech.
“The deaths of millions may be one tiny tantrum away,” she added, according to the BBC.
Ican, a group formed in 2007 to highlight the humanitarian risk of nuclear weapons, received this year’s Nobel Peace Prize on Sunday. The award comes amid heightened tensions between the United States and North Korea over the latter’s development of nuclear weapons.
Watch the very moment Beatrice Fihn and Setsuko Thurlow from @nuclearban (ICAN) accept the Nobel Peace Prize diploma and medal. Congratulations ICAN! pic.twitter.com/5V9fmReqrV
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) December 10, 2017