The peace sign was used to spread the anti-war message by many people during the Woodstock Festival in 1969 as well as by opponents of the South African apartheid regime. The symbol was also employed by Greenpeace in 1971 to stop a nuclear weapon test in Amchitka. Anti-war protesters formed the peace symbol with torches on Heroes’ Square in ...

The peace symbol we know and love today was created by Gerald Holtom, a British artist and activist who was a conscientious objector during World War II. During the late 1950s, some people in England were concerned about what they called "The Big Bomb" — the weapon they'd seen dropped on two Japanese cities during WWII, effectively ending the ...

The peace symbol came to represent the CND and was used and continues to be used by many other protestors and activists around the world to promote peace. Other shapes have interesting...

The CND symbol is one of the most widely known symbols in the world. In Britain it is recognised as standing for nuclear disarmament – and in particular as the logo of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). In the rest of the world it is known more broadly as the peace symbol.