Book excerpt: RadioActive Psyche traces and analyzes the psychological, cultural, and historical evolution of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) 1958 "peace symbol" image, and the liberation movements associated with it. Through the frameworks of depth psychology, feminist, and critical theory, this project further examines how secret, archetype, and myth inform how, and under what conditions, the peace symbol came to operate so powerfully in relation to social movements, and how considering the collective unconscious deepens our understanding of these dynamics. radioActive Psyche uses visual hermeneutic case study to focus on the emergence and fortitude of the peace symbol as cultural object in visual discourses of the West ... -- Author's abstract.