FILE - In this file photo taken June 25, 2014, Master Sgt. Tad Wagner, looks over an inert Minuteman 3 missile in a training launch tube at Minot Air Force Base, N.D. The base is tasked with maintaining 150 of the nuclear-tipped missiles spread out across the North Dakota countryside and keeping them ready to launch at a moment's notice as part of the US's nuclear defense strategy. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, an organization pushing for a global treaty to ban the cataclysmic bombs. The award of the US$1.1-million prize The Geneva-based ICAN won the $1.1 million prize comes amid heightened tensions over both North Korea???s aggressive development of nuclear weapons and President Donald Trump???s persistent criticism of the deal to curb Iran???s nuclear program. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)