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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[treedirt10000]

how is it that the retarded people are running the world?

[barrettproduction]

@treedirt10000 Sorry to say, But they are and we are stuck in the middle.

[stiki123]

Cancer, declining sperm count. Can't help but think this might have something to do with it.

[holysoks1]

@zkxb Wrong.

Many countries would see a distinct weather change and radiation levels would increase but many millions, if not billions of people would be able to adapt and survive.

[zkxb]

The pentagon has done computer simulations of nuclear war. All kinds of different scenarios and each time the outcome is the same : IF THERE IS A NUCLEAR WAR, WE ALL DIE.

[MSJewelryAU]

Becomes a kind of twisted melody of destruction as the lights & sounds flash around the globe.

[Tulbeful]

Israel never tested their nukes?

[fathomtheuniverse]

The earth looks like a Christmas tree..only we can't throw the tree out after the party is over..

[redaeL99]

WTF Indian only 1 ..so shameful

[88roro11]

wtf is us doing.. just making sure the bombs work? :P