Nobel Peace Prize winner has repeatedly attacked Trump

The executive director of the nuclear disarmament group awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today called Donald Trump a ‘moron’ just two days ago.

Beatrice Fihn, who works for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), also tweeted that President Trump had threatened ‘nuclear war’.

Her Geneva-based group was honored for helping bring about a UN treaty in July which banned nuclear weapons.

In July, 122 nations adopted a UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons but the nuclear-armed countries – United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea – stayed out of the talks.

Beatrice Fihn, who works for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican), tweeted that President Trump had threatened ‘nuclear war’

On Wednesday, Fihn tweeted simply: ‘Donald Trump is a moron’

On Wednesday, Fihn tweeted simply: ‘Donald Trump is a moron.’

Her remark came after a report that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had called the president a moron after a meeting at the Pentagon.

But Fihn’s Twitter account is littered with criticism of the commander in chief.

On Tuesday, she said the president ‘threatens nuclear war, rejects diplomacy and multilateralism’.

She added: ‘[He] wants to build new types of nukes but somehow states that want to make a legally binding commitment to never use or possess nuclear weapons are the irresponsible ones?’

Fihn has also retweeted messages critical of Trump, including one showing an edited animation of the president holding up a cartoon with the words ‘rocket man’ next to it – a reference to his name for North Korea’s dictator.

Nuclear disarmament group ICAN coordinator Daniel Hogstan, executive director Beatrice Fihn (centre) and her husband Will Fihn Ramsay after ICAN won the Nobel Peace Prize for its decade-long campaign to rid the world of the atomic bomb

On Tuesday, she said the president ‘threatens nuclear war, rejects diplomacy and multilateralism’. She added: [He] wants to build new types of nukes but somehow states that want to make a legally binding commitment to never use or possess nuclear weapons are the irresponsible ones?’

On September 19, she wrote: ‘Trump condemns use of chemical weapons in Syria minutes after he threatened to wipe out North Korea with nuclear weapons.’

Discussing the award today, Nobel Committee President Berit Reiss-Andersen said: ‘Through its inspiring and innovative support for the UN negotiations on a treaty banning nuclear weapons, Ican has played a major part in bringing about what in our day and age is equivalent to an international peace congress’.

Committee President Berit Reiss-Andersen (pictured) said: ‘We live in a world where the risk of nuclear weapons being used is greater than it has been for a long time.’

Referring to the North Korea nuclear crisis, she added: ‘We live in a world where the risk of nuclear weapons being used is greater than it has been for a long time.’

Fihn said she was ‘delighted’ with the award, but added: ‘We’re not done yet. The job isn’t done until nuclear weapons are gone.’

Reiss-Andersen added: ‘This year’s Peace Prize is also a call upon these states to initiate serious negotiations with a view to the gradual, balanced and carefully monitored elimination of the almost 15,000 nuclear weapons in the world’.

On Tuesday, Fihn said the president ‘threatens nuclear war, rejects diplomacy and multilateralism’

North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile during a test in July

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The Nobel prize seeks to bolster the case of disarmament amid nuclear tensions between the United States and North Korea and uncertainty over the fate of a 2015 deal between Iran and major powers to limit Tehran’s nuclear programme.

US President Donald Trump has called the Iran agreement the ‘worst deal ever negotiated’ and a senior administration official said on Thursday that Trump is expected to announce soon that he will decertify the landmark pact.

The award will be presented, along with the $1million prize fee, on 10 December in Oslo.

Recent winners include Barack Obama in 2009 and the European Union in 2012.

What does ICAN do?

Founded in Vienna in 2007 on the fringes of an international conference on the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, ICAN has tirelessly mobilised campaigners and celebrities alike in its cause.

From its offices in the buildings of the World Council of Churches in Geneva, ICAN works with 468 non-governmental organisations across 101 countries, including rights, development, environmental and peace groups.

ICAN was created to help a vast array of groups push for a ban similar to the global agreements forbidding the use of biological and chemical weapons, landmines and cluster munitions.

Those efforts paid off in July this year, when 122 countries at the UN adopted the new treaty banning nuclear weapons, despite harsh opposition from the United States and other nuclear powers.

‘It is really a landmark achievement,’ ICAN chief Beatrice Fihn said, acknowledging though that the adoption of the treaty was merely ‘a starting point’.

None of the nine countries that possess nuclear weapons – the United States, Russia, Britain, China, France, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel – took part in the negotiations.

And the treaty will only enter into force when 50 countries have signed and ratified it, a process that could take months or years.

But while there is no way as of yet to force nuclear powers to disarm, Fihn voiced optimism that the treaty declaring them illegal would help stigmatise them.

‘The more countries we can rally to reject nuclear weapons and the more public opinion changes to think that this is unacceptable, the harder it is going to be for the nuclear-armed states to justify it,’ she said.

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