Reply To: Report from Scandinavia

[Rezwan]

But of course! It’s perfect irony. Beating the nuclear sword into a nuclear ploughshare. End Nuclear war (which is really oil war), via nuclear peace. Too perfect!

But thanks for bringing this to my attention. This was all subconscious. I didn’t know the history of the symbol.
Looking it up on this website, we read that:

Gerald Holtom, 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