Peace Symbol: Nuclear Disarmament

This famous peace symbol is called "Nuclear Disarmament". This symbol of freedom was designed in 1958 by Gerald Holtom, a professional designer and artist and a graduate of the Royal College of Arts. He, a conscientious objector who had worked on a farm in Norfolk during the second World War, explained that the symbol incorporated the semaphore letters (N)uclear and (D)isarmament. He later wrote to Hugh Brock, editor of Peace News, explaining the genesis of his idea in greater, more personal depth: 
I was in despair. Deep despair. I drew myself: the representative of an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya’s peasant before the firing squad. I formalised the drawing into a line and put a circle round it.