Fukushima Day 106 Time-lapse of Nuclear Explosions since 1945 by artist Isao Hashimoto

Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project's "Trinity" test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan's nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea's two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear).

Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen. Hashimoto, who began the project in 2003, says that he created it with the goal of showing"the fear and folly of nuclear weapons." It starts really slow — if you want to see real action, skip ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming.

http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/


Multimedia artwork
"2053" - This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe.*
Profile of the artist: Isao HASHIMOTO
Born in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan in 1959.
Worked for 17 years in financial industry as a foreign exchange dealer. Studied at Department of Arts, Policy and Management of Musashino Art University, Tokyo.
Currently working for Lalique Museum, Hakone, Japan as a curator.
Created artwork series expressing, in the artist's view, "the fear and the folly of nuclear weapons":
"1945-1998" © 2003
"Overkilled"
"The Names of Experiments"
About "1945-1998" ©2003
"This piece of work is a bird's eye view of the history by scaling down a month length of time into one second. No letter is used for equal messaging to all viewers without language barrier. The blinking light, sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country have conducted. I created this work for the means of an interface to the people who are yet to know of the extremely grave, but present problem of the world."
Contact the artist:
Should you have any query regarding this artwork, please contact e-mail address below:
hashi123@amy.hi-ho.ne.jp
* The number excludes both tests by North Korea (October 2006 and May 2009)

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[phantomscolts1]

this dosnt even include the amount of waste dump in the oceans and rivers or buried in the deserts...no one is mentioning high-altitude nuclear tests and its effects ...In 1958 the United States had completed six high-altitude nuclear tests, but the high-altitude tests of that year produced many unexpected results and raised many new questions...Hockey stick controversy tempurature begins to increase 1958 levels and begins to decrease 1998..if we cannot see the past we cannot see the future

[NewTownHighMD2012]

Needs updating for the two nuclear weapons test by North Korea (2006, 2009)

[DeltaOmegaAlliance]

Chernobyl's not there.

[diagreen]

shit.were fuked

[Dave6x9]

Do you think they want to us dead,just look,I put this up,on twitter months ago,you just do not believe there poisoning our lives.I feel sorry for the public there dumb as a post!

[1elgalle1]

Civilian of other planets realize, and came to earth and manipulated the minds not to do more testing, so UFOs appeared in 1947 saw kenneth arnold or roswell ufo crash

everything fits, the waves traveled at the speed of light, including the captured, with its unique technology, never let that happen again

[niquela2011]

Couldn't believe the ammount of NUCLEAR explosions that have occurred in such a short period of our Planets time ... No wonder it's dying ... :'((

[daredevilLeo1]

Lets move past atom bombs and start creating safe energy!

[quest33613]

FREAKIN AMAZING VIDEO....GREAT JOB.

[MrInnerCircle]

The Mojave Wasteland - A glowing Community since the 1950´s

The Great War of 2077 is only the Icing on the radioactive Cake :D