I can be really wrong,because I did never study the fully story of it.But,wikipedia says other thing : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_symbols
that's because wikipedia is edited by the people who can't be bothered to make a notice that this so called "peacey symbol" is almost identhical (the only difference is the circle) to the neronic cross:
https://www.google.pl/search?um=1&hl=pl&safe=off&client=opera&tbo=d&channel=suggest&biw=1880&bih=974&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=neronic+cross&oq=neronic+cross&gs_l=img.3...7449.9107.0.9215.13.10.0.0.0.0.272.1250.0j4j2.6.0...0.0...1c.1.qvhexbfPChI
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