Piece where does the smiley face come from or the power but today we sent out the 9 p.r. Team to dig into the back story behind some of those images you see every day you might know what they mean but you don t know why they mean with Amy. In this episode ubiquitous. So image is here to bring the story of the peace symbol here I am. Talking about the peace symbol like 2 fingers up when someone takes a picture right now the drawing of like a circle with a little stick Yes You know one that looks kind of like the Mercedes Benz logo. That you see everywhere I mean it s kind of hard to think of a more ubiquitous icon than the piece and yeah right it s like truly truly everywhere and I think what interested me about it was that despite its sort of total ubiquity it has a very very specific origin story oh that s cool Ok so hit me with it so the symbol goes back to the 1950 s. And a British organization called the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear war that s a good name that does what
B.b.c. News. You re listening to the newsroom from the b.b.c. World Service with me Claire McDonnell the winner of this year s Nobel Peace Prize is the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons also known as I can the announcement was made in Oslo by the Nobel committee s chairperson but it at least Anderson through binding international agreements the international community has previously adopted prohibitions against land mines cluster munitions and biological and chemical weapons nuclear weapons are even more destructive but have not yet been made the object of a similar International only prova vision through its work I can and has helped to fill this legal gap while I can was a key player in the historic nuclear weapons ban treaty signed by 122 countries in July the organization is executive director Beatrice Finn of knowledge the role of anti nuclear campaigners worldwide this prize is really a tribute to the tireless efforts on many millions of campaigners and concerned