Where are these supposed symbols the Peace sign is made of?

Question

The best I've seen is the Runes, but I was told that's wrong. Enlighten me!

Anthony Silva

No offense, but I think the N and D explanation is poppycock! Just
like the Military/Industrial complex
was Communist disinfromation
and propaganda, to keep the Free
World from stopping the spread of
Communism. Same as this,
everything is about OIL today.
The website said what I know. The
sign is derived from the "death" rune.
But with the circle too, that doesn't
necessarily make it sinister, but
what it actually was. A protest
against war!

Answer 1

I believe the "death" rune is the Omega, or End letter in the Rune
alphabet. Death sometimes symbolizes the end of something. Like the end to war maybe?

Answer 2

It was created in 1958 by Gerald Holtom, who was a conscientious objector. It was definitely about nuclear disarmament. He wrote to the editor of Peace News about how he came to design the symbol: "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."

As for your theory of the "death rune", the rune generally considered the "death" rune is Eihwaz (Eoh), and it looks nothing like the peace symbol.

Perhaps you will accept an article from the library at Berkeley as proof? See link below:

Answer 3

The peace sign actually comes from a graphic originally intended to mean "Nuclear Disarmament". If you take the N and the D and twist them up a bit, you get the peace sign.

Answer 4

Paul H. appears to be right. Here is some more information for you:

http://www.recycledpeace.com/History/history.html