The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is an organisation that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by the United Kingdom, international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation
CND rally, in Aberystwyth, Wales, 25 May 1961
Protest against nuclear weapons with CND symbol, in Amersfoort, Netherlands, 3 April 1961
1983 Easter CND march around the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE) at Aldermaston
CND banner in March 2011
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A number of peace symbols have been used many ways in various cultures and contexts. The dove and olive branch was used symbolically by early Christians and then eventually became a secular peace symb
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…the 1959 march and 150,000 in the 1961 and 1962 marches. The 1958 march was the subject of a documentary by Lindsay Anderson, March to Aldermaston. The symbol adopted by CND, designed for them in 1958 by Gerald Holtom, became the international peace symbol. It is based on the semaphore symbols for "N" (two flags held 45…
An engraving from The London Magazine, January 1775, showing the Goddess of Peace bringing an olive branch to America and Britannia
James Thornhill, Peace and Liberty Triumphing Over Tyranny
Wall painting from the early Christian Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter in Rome, showing Noah, in the orante attitude of prayer, the dove and an olive branch
The descent of Holy Spirit in the Christian Trinity depicted as a dove of peace in a church memorial stained glass window