What is the history of the peace symbol?

Answer 1

LOL!!! Where do these people get these answers?!!!

Look bro, I'm old enough to remember the 60s. The peace sign aka "Great American Chicken foot print" as some called it. (LOL) Was derived from old British Naval Codes by the early Anti-nuclear Arms Movement sometime during the late fifties and early sixties.

If I remember correctly it symbolizes "Nuclear Disarmament" the equivalent of today's "No Nukes." This where I may be confused - If I remember Correctly the line down the middle, 'I' represents the letter 'N' for "Nuclear" and the inverted V, '^' represents the letter 'D' for "Disarmament". The circle represents the world.

Answer 2

theres two that the problem folks that dont know that where not HIP in the days of the war in vietnam the crows foot is a three legged symbol of odin and the old gods a short hand for satans followers in the witch world but the peace symbol two fingers up is the same as victory in WW-2 by churchill just reversed to augment the idea of peace without war facing the front a peace symbol is two fingers and the palm out on paper its two legss with an angle between hanging down on a circle

Answer 3

The peace symbol was created in by antiwar protesters. It comes from two british semaphores. The upside "v" semiphore and the straight line semaphore. They are the semiphores "N" and "D" which stand for nuclear disarmament.

Answer 4

Sorry guys. As Paul Harvey would say, here's the rest of the story.

It stands for "N" "D" in semaphore, or Nuclear Disarmament.

Answer 5

It's an encircled death rune. The ancient Northern Europeans had a Runic alphabet called the Futhark. The three-armed "Y" represented Life. Turn it upside-down, and it means death.

Answer 6

I believe it was originally supposed to represent the foot of a dove.