Peace
The biography of a symbol
Ken Kolsbun with Mike Sweeney

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Author(s)

Ken Kolsbun, Mike Sweeney

Publication, year

Washington : National Geographic Society, 2008

Scope

176 Pages, illustrated, 21 cm.

ISBN

9781426202940

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The peace symbol made its first public appearance in London's Trafalgar Square in April 1958. Originally designed as the emblem fot the British nuclear disarmament movement, its designer Gerald Holton created it by combining the semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D" - nuclear disarmament.

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Location

Cabinet 13 - 2: Grafische vormgeving ; Politiek