This poster takes as its motif a single white dove. The use of a dove as a symbol for peace in antinuclear posters has become a clear visual language common to people throughout the world it has ultimate universality. I eschewed an urbane, awkwardly witty representation, instead favoring the imposing challenge of the white dove.

In giving visual expression to the purity, serenity and resoluteness of the dove, I sought to incorporate a prayer to counter the dark side of humanity. Moreover, though this dove was drawn using a compass to form a continuous geometric circle, I had the Pigeon on a Peach Branch by Emperor Huizong (China, 1082-1135) in mind, with the goal of creating a poster imbued with oriental ideas, rather than something in the Western style. The mushroom cloud spreading across the background of the poster is a lament for Hiroshima which should be remembered and incorporates a prayer for the abolition of the atomic weapons that threaten to annihilate the human race.