Rafflsebear - Yes I get your meaning.

I agree. In direct response to the OP, I don't believe Google were being intentionally "political" in their use of what has now become internationally adopted as the 'Peace Sign'. CND chose to allow free use of their symbol - it was their choice.

As an aside though I also tend to agree with MtheGM on personally preferring the Dove of Peace as representing the *beauty* of Peace as an humanitarian or even spiritual IDEAL.

I'm afraid the CND logo will never tally with that image for *me*, as it's got far too much of an immediate human history etched into my memory. I was a child during the height of the CND movement - when Maggie and Ronny Raygun were playing cowboys with nuclear missiles.

When I was a kid, my Mums mate was going to take her daughter to Greenham Common Peace Camp to protest against the Cruise Missiles, my Mother thought her mate was daft - but secretly I wished that it was my Mum taking me there. And I'm still deeply impressed by what those women did. Eighteen years of action and vigilance, for a very specific anti-nuclear weapons purpose. So the CND logo will always remain what it was for me. Though of course I do acknowledge that images get co-opted and altered and that unlike me, Google and the rest of the world were not in the UK during the Cold-War ;-)