Nice to see they do somehow recognize the whole association of people and not push to much about a single person. But the committee is trapped with the rules that push for this ridiculous individual centric point of view which is so out of touch with measurable realities considering what forces actually come at play to anything with large social impact.

Also on a side note:

>the most destructive weapons the world has ever seen.

Well, first thing, this is a quite restrictive anthropocentric and restrictive POV for what count for a weapon. Putting appart all things that triggered previous mass extinction as they might not really fit the expectation of weapon and "ever witnessed as implied agent", ok. But let's consider European invasion of America: while this was not intended and per design, it somehow greatly leveraged on bacteriological weapons.

Currently humanity is also at war with biodiversity, and the scale is massive and worldwide, using a large panel of tools.

Of course we are more prone to empathy to our fellow humans, and nuclear weapons are abominations.