The peace symbol, commissioned by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, was designed and completed by Gerald Holtom on this day in 1958. The symbol is a superposition of the semaphore signals for the letters ‘N’ and ‘D’, taken to stand for ‘nuclear disarmament’, while simultaneously acting as a reference to Goya‘s The Third of May 1808 (1814) (aka ‘Peasant Before the Firing Squad’)
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