Peace Symbol Trivia

• The peace symbol was designed for the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War and adopted as the badge of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Britain
• It was completed on February 21, 1958 making 2008 its 50th anniversary
• It was created by Gerald Holtom
• The symbol is a combination of the semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D" which stand for "nuclear disarmament"
• The peace symbol button was imported into the Uited States in 1960 by Philip Altbach, a freshman at the University of Chicago
• Altbach was a member of the Student Peace Union and had purchased a bag of the buttons while in England

Now, go forth and amaze your friends with your vast peace-y knowledge.