Peace symbols
（重定向自Peace dove）
![The symbol originally designed for the British nuclear disarmament movement is now widely used.](/Images/godic/202502/01/Peace_sign.svg0607.png")
![An engraving from The London Magazine, January 1775, showing the Goddess of Peace bringing an olive branch to America and Britannia.](/Images/godic/202502/01/OliveBritAmerica17750607.jpg")
![Wall painting from the early Christian Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter in Rome, showing Noah, in the Orante attitude of prayer, the dove and an olive branch](/Images/godic/202502/01/Noah_catacombe0607.jpg")
![The Pax Cultura emblem](/Images/godic/202502/01/Pax_cultura.svg0607.png")
A number of peace symbols have been used many ways in various cultures and contexts. The dove and olive branch was used symbolically by early Christians and then eventually became a secular peace symbol, popularized by Pablo Picasso after World War 2. In the 1950s the "peace sign", as it is known today, was designed as the logo for the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and adopted by anti-war and counterculture activists in the United States and elsewhere. The V hand signal and the peace flag also became international peace symbols.