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| Designed in 1958 for CND by Gerald Holtom. The CND symbol has been appropriated to represent peace. |
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| Gerald Holtom notes one of two origins of the symbol as a representation of that similar to Goya's Peasant;a man in despair with his arms outstretched. |
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| The second of the two origins of the symbol came from flag semaphore, a communication system based upon visual positions. A mergence of N and D represented nuclear disarmament. |
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| The logo is not copyrighted therefore commercial use if unrestricted. |
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| An archive of Holtom's original sketches are available in close proximity to Leeds College Of Art. |
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| 'The first badges were made by Eric Austen of Kensington CND using white clay with the symbol painted black. Again there was a conscious symbolism. They were distributed with a note explaining that in the event of a nuclear war, these fired pottery badges would be among the few human artefacts to survive the nuclear inferno.' |
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