Aldermaston Marches

Series of demonstrations against nuclear weapons in the 1950s and 60s.

In 1958, protesters marched from Trafalgar Square, London, to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment in Aldermaston (Berkshire); it took them about four days to cover the fifty-mile distance. In the following years, the direction was reversed. The peace symbol that was to become the logo of the CND was designed by Gerald Holtom for the first Aldermaston March.