Nuclear Explosions, 1945 to 1998 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.




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[MaximusNWOGladiator]

Thanks for the Great Effort! Empoverished Uranium (commercially sold by The NeoFasciss as Depleted Uranium or DU) is the new trend. It would be good to have an analogous study for DU... Thanks Again... Very Grateful... May God Save Us!

[cattnipp]

A lot of research.

[Trome1000]

Holy shit in 1958

[KENKENNIFF]

I suppose every ten years or so, someone new joins the club, presumably at some point everybody will have them, at which point having them wont be enough. They will have to use them.

[DoomDodgers]

I had no idea. I really had no idea. And british tested on american land? That's all new to me.

[XXXPopeBenedictXVI]

Wow. During the hight of the cold war you can really see America and Russia facing each other off.