Protest badges for peace and nuclear disarmament, 1960s – 1980s

Metal and plastic

R 858 / 1­–16

Show your allegiance, display solidarity, campaign for change, protest injustice or express what matters to you. Wear a badge and participate in democracy ... Opposition to the use of nuclear weapons, nuclear energy and nuclear testing is chronicled on a large number of badges, with evocative slogans such as ‘Children need smiles not missiles’, ‘Arms are for linking’ and ‘Hiroshima Never Again’, a reference to the bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States in August 1945.