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Uploaded by on Jul 22, 2010

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.

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  • And then someone ask "why we have cancer?"

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  • I remember protesting against the nuke tests of France in 1996.. I wasn't awae, that already 2000+ detonations were on the counter.

  • Awful has what to mean this movie but wogule? [

  • Sounds like death...

  • why does america shoot nukes into the sea... i gues they hate fish

  • 1:58 THAT NOICE SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME :(

  • It's very sad...

  • Tell me pls: "This video isn't fkin real" :| ..... OMFG !!!111oneone1one!!!!!

  • Humans are fucked.

    

  • @AuH2064 peace no, stabilisation yes

  • "god bless America, land that I love"

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