Gerald Holtom's rarely exhibited original sketches for the peace symbol will go on view this March at the Imperial War Museum in London. Peace sign badges (courtesy ...

The peace symbol originated as a sign based on an “individual in despair . . . in the manner of Goya’s peasant before the firing squad.” The symbol that would become synonymous with the Campaign for ...

On Good Friday 1958, thousands gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square to protest nuclear weapons. They were responding to a string of test blasts conducted by the United Kingdom, the third nation to ...

In 1945, an estimated 340,000 people died when the United States dropped nuclear bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. After those attacks, other countries around the world began ...

As people all over the world take to social media to voice their support for Paris following yesterday's devastating terrorist attacks, one symbol has become the dominant image associated with the ...

The Eiffel Tower as a peace sign: the drawing by Jean Julien is probably getting the heaviest circulation in the social media, turning up not only on the Internet but all over the world. People are ...

The peace symbol is 50. But what does it represent? Some have suggested this symbol looks like a rocket poised for ignition whereas others claim to see an airplane already flying within the circle. It ...

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