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August 30, 2007

The First Peace Buttons

Here's something interesting I didn't know, from DesignBoom about the history of the peace symbol:

- The anti-nuclear emblem or the peace sign was invented on the request of Lord Bertrand Russel, head of the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
- The first peace symbol badges (pictured below) were made by Eric Austin, using white clay with the symbol painted black.
- 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 artifacts to survive the nuclear inferno.

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Posted by mark at August 30, 2007 7:46 AM

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