A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by 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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[CrackCommando5654]

@frostyjuice also nationalism sucks, I believe if there was no religion and no nationalism, we'd live in a better world.

[TheRedbikemaster]

10:53 He forgot to mark where I was born.

[shivatecs]

The only legitimate reason to believe that humans cause global warming.

[benatssu]

@samimaryan

i was being sarcastic... disarm the world we should... a waste of brilliant minds, imagine all that time, money and effort spent on developing these weapons was spent on education and sustainable living... such a different world it would be

[samimaryan]

@benatssu We should disarm Israel.. they are stupid people.. they might attack some country for the fun of it...

[samimaryan]

@CrackCommando5654 capitalism is the problem... The corporations tell us what to do, how to think, what to eat... and how to have sex... everything...

[akirafactor]

Rewrite history with all these warheads detonating in Beijing and Israel.

[c25c2]

Japan now has 46 (lucky Cuba)

[benatssu]

gee we better not let iran get a hold of any nukes, they might do something fucked up like detonate more than a thousand for the next 50 years!!

[djhazyjewfro]

USA! USA! USA!

[suehobartutube]

wow very powerful video project. The insane lunatics who created nuclear bombs and laid waste large swaths of land now permanently contaminated in US, Russia, China, Pacific islands both by exploding the bombs and by the messy process of creating them. What a crazy world we live in where we built bombs to "destroy" the enemy and ended up poisoning our own people. People should research what the insane military did. The people suffer terrible cancers and unwell children in these lands today.