1945-1998 Visual History of Nuclear Testing

This video takes a couple minutes to really get going, but it is a brilliant piece of educational artwork that crosses all language barriers through the use of tones.

This piece of work is a bird's eye view of the history by scaling down each second to equal one month's period of time. No comments are included in the video so its message is apparent to all viewers without any language barriers. The blinking lights, sounds, national flags and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country has conducted.

Artist Isao Hashimoto:"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."

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Isao
• Hashimoto
• 1945-1998
• nuclear
• testing

[renosweeny420]

Why say testing in the title? Pretty offensive when Hiroshima and Nagasaki are included!

[OpusJones]

@renosweeny420 Offensive, eh? The word "testing" is appropriate considering that over 99% of what is being illustrated is "testing". By your logic, we're offending the universe by not calling it Earth, simply because we exist and despite the fact that we comprise only a fraction of it's greater mass. Try not to let the things that don't really matter "offend" you. You'll be a hell of a lot happier in the long run. :-)

[rugbydazz]

God I'm surprised the Western United states is habitable if this is correct and if it's underground testing surley this must be bad for the san andreas fault.

[jtshippee]

truly sickening. our poor planet. and we wonder why the incidence of cancer keeps rising in our populations. imagine all the money and resources spent that could have been put to greater use.

[UnoRaza]

I wonder how many know this is the reason the ice pack is melting like crazy!

(Look at 2007 alone.)