Peace symbol celebrates 50 years

Hey, do you know that today it is 50 years jubilee for a PEACE SYMBOL. And do you know what actually it means? So here's the story...



It was designed and completed February 21, 1958 by Gerald Holtom, for the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War and was adopted as its badge by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Britain, and originally was used by the British nuclear disarmament movement.

The symbol itself is a combination of the semaphoric signals for the letters "N" and "D," standing for Nuclear Disarmament.



These two signals imposed over each other form the shape of the peace symbol. In the original design the lines widened at the edge of the circle.