The Peace Symbol, commissioned by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the UK, was designed by Gerald Holtom in 1958. The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is an anti-nuclear organization advocates a tighter international arms regulation through agreements like nuclear non-proliferation treaties rather than through military action. The symbol is a combination of the semaphore signals for the letters N (nuclear) and D (disarmament). The symbol has been wildly popular and used in many places, especially during and after the Vietnam War. The symbol is also available in Unicode (U+262E) and HTML (☮ or ☮)
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