CND peace symbol what-if

Thande

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Just to balance Archibald's one about nuclear rockets ;)

It's noted in the BBC article here that the bloke who invented the CND peace symbol originally considered basing it around a Christian cross. Because many of the anti-nuclear and pacifist groups, especially in the 1950s when it started, were church-based.

WI he had done this instead of using the OTL semaphore-derived one?

The main change from OTL I can see from this is that groups in the USA may be less hostile to it - in OTL there were all sorts of funny theories about it being a Satanic symbol or something.
 
in OTL there were all sorts of funny theories about it being a Satanic symbol or something.

It's mentioned in a Stephen King short story, set in the mid-60s, that ROTC members are being told it's "Stalin's Sparrowfoot", or something similar- the idea being that the symbol was made up by Stalin,and only TEH EEVIL COMMIES!TM use it . Then, the proto-hippie guy arguing with the ROTC character explains about the semaphore origins - although he does attribute the design to Bertrand Russell...

Irrelevant anecdotes? Useless facts? I've got plenty...
 
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