The peace symbol originated as a sign based on an “individual in despair . . . in the manner of Goya’s peasant before the firing squad.” The symbol that would become synonymous with the Campaign for ...

In 1945, an estimated 340,000 people died when the United States dropped nuclear bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. After those attacks, other countries around the world began ...

On Good Friday 1958, thousands gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square to protest nuclear weapons. They were responding to a string of test blasts conducted by the United Kingdom, the third nation to ...

For a younger generation, the once-powerful protest symbol packs about as much of a punch as a smiley face. Once the powerful logo of nuclear disarmament, the peace sign became so overused it lost its ...

Few symbols are as powerful, or universal, as the peace sign. But why was it created? And why has it remained increasingly relevant to this day? On a rainy day during Easter in 1958, thousands of ...

International Day of Peace 2020: World Peace Day is observed every year on September 21. A United Nations-designated day, it was first established in 1981. On International Day of Peace, the world ...

Jean Jullien tells THR how his spontaneous reaction to the attacks was to draw a message of peace and solidarity. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent One of the overriding images to emerge from the ...