A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945
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/
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I dont see Russia anywhere. That means is all this period Russia not even did a single Nuclear explosion?? Can anyone explain!!
Ahh sorry my bad. I never saw the flag properly. Russia is there.
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Russia launched the biggest one of them all
Where is Israel in this? its not even a foot note! Its well known to be the first middle-east country to build them and the first to test them in 1979 (in South Africa)
are you trolling? US is the first to test and use them in ww2 on japan
@lol look carefully, she said first MIDDLE EASTERN country to test them, not first EVER.
Turkey helped Israel to build nuclear weapons.
@Thomas Turkey is not mentioned either though, nor is South Africa. So the hole still exists. Plus the USA helped the UK build their’s, but they are listed separately…
And who do you think helped build the Israeli nukes? They sure as hell did not get it done on their own. Wether they are shown or not, this is still a pretty disturbing time-lapse video.
Israel is not there, I would imagine – because it does not exist. Palestine however, may be a more legitimate question, as well as a more legitimate state/country.
Israel, apparently, was handed fissile material by UK. They built their own weapon at Demona and apparently still have between 200 and 300, though they neither admit or deny it. It is apparent they gave South Africa nuclear technology which then took it on and became the only country in the region to be a nuclear power. To its immense credit, South Africa is the ONLY country to reverse its decision to become a nuclear power and dismantle all of its weapons entirely and unilaterally.
There are bits missing, (not including N Korea which is believed to have faked their tests using massive amounts of TNT) which include recent tests by the US on new types of nuclear weapons, as well as the UK, although I may be wrong and they may perhaps have not tested them yet..
Battlefield hand held nukes is the next thing, apparently. Also, there is an awful lot of DU around (depleted uranium is a misnomer as it has a deadly half life of around 4,500,000,000 years.
i dont see what is so scary yea nukes have been tested mainly by the us and russia. cant perfect something unless you test it.
@volsfan: So you don’t live anywere near a testside. That’s great! But know what, Some raindrops on your head, some dust grained together with the beans in the coffee you drunk this morning,Some seafood you ate last year were! That’s no problem to me. You’ll piss them out. Wanna know what my problem is ? Finally your piss will evaporate and get in a cloud. Sometimes I get raindrops on my head. I don’t like this idea very much, you know….
How come Israel and North Korea aren’t in the map? Are you saying they have never tested their atomic weapons???
Terrifying anyway, it makes clear how stupid human beings are. We really can self-destruct…
Well I don’t know about Israel, probably because the artist got his information from a specific source mentioned at the end of the video. Thus Israel has been quite secretive about its nuclear weapons, even when they tested them it was the guise of a different country. North Korea is not on it because this only goes until 1998, North Korea exploded their first device in 2003 (I think).
After like the first few I thought, “ok we get it, you have nukes.” Then it just became a huge wasteful pissing contest. Governments are stupid.
It seems crazy that the USA needed to ‘test’ this technology so many more times than anyone else, surely after the first say 500 they knew how it worked? At least they tested most of them on their own soil unlike the UK and France who never tested anything in their own back yard! At least there was a definite slowing down in the last decade shown, thats a positive trend.
The UK did test them in its own back yard – one of the many ‘benefits’ of British colonialism.
I believe the slowdown came from more testing of chemical weapons and also the need of governments to be more secretive.
And do you know where all of America and the UK’s nuclear waste went? Australian dessert. Lots and lots of it. There’s more than one reason it’s uninhabitable.
Yep! its full of Aussies.
This map is unfortunately incomplete: all underground nuclear tests of low intensity – camouflaged by seismic technologies developed in the 80′s – are obviously missing.
Loads of “tuts” and “how comes” but who’s doing something about it?
Sorry my time machine is broken.
after watching the last bit i’m beginning to wonder if these “nuclear accidents” like chernobyl (may the souls of the people rest in peace) might not be as they seem i mean a huge nuclear reactor seems like a perfect target for someone wanting to fight communisn
what about all the secret nuclear explosions ie black projects etc etc etc etc
The USA arent bloody shy are they?
Why the hell did they do that?
Crazy poor world… over 1500 tests allover…
2 more US tests in broad daylight on 9/1/01
Is there any wonder why there is so much Cancer in the world? We can thank our Government, and yes – they knew the consequences after the first few.
Exacly, thats what i was thinking. 1 of 3 people get some sort of cancer eventually.
and Scientists have spent the past 15 years trying to convince us that global warming is a result of fossil fools.
hahaha, yeah… Alright then !
Well we are depleting our resources very very quickly and it seems we have no interest in finding a replacement for them. Global warming is very controversial, scientists believe now it’s being caused by the sun and we have very little to do with it. But that’s off the topic of our oil running critically low and it being the stable of everything from our diet to our energy to most of our jobs. That’s neglecting the fact that it’s bad for us in every way, it’s found in plastics which cause cancer, foods which lead to being unhealthy and being weak against cancer (which healthy bodies can fight off in a normal situations), it’s harmful to breathe, and it’s toxic to plants and animals. We have the ability right now to give everyone power, run our cars, and do everything we are used to not using fossil fuels if we would just stop being idiots and realize that this Earth is the only reason we are here, and we keep this up we are either going to run out and riot and kill each other trying to find more, or we are going to deplete our clean water and farm-able land and die from starvation and dehydration. Our technology is grand, we no longer need to live in an age of scarcity, we’ve been able to give the whole world power for a very very long time, but unfortunately it’s not profitable for everyone to be self sustainable and efficient.
In short don’t worry about global warming, worry about the lack of fossil fuels we have, what they are doing to literally the one thing sustaining our existence, and how dependent we have become on something that has already hit its peak and is quickly going away.
Stacey, below, you have your arguments around 180 wrong. There’s loads of oil, hundreds and hundreds more years worth, worse luck.
Also, most scientists in the world (i.e. climate scientists, not some unrelated mob funded by the fortune 500 top 20!) agree that climate change is happening and is man action related (not only by burning fossil fuels, but also by deforestation, pollution of the seas and therefore death of phytoplankton blooms and so on..
“There’s a lot of arsenic on the planet, don’t eat it. There’s a lot of oil on the planet, don’t burn it!”
Greg Palast.
Dirty French pricks nuclear testing in the south pacific.
There is lots of disformation like born with 6 or 7 fingers, extra ears, stuff like that,… among polynesian people, surely due to french nuclear test on murorua atol.
The early eighties was great! sounded like a kraftwerk tune.
… under a class Z movie.
Where are the Germans??? Ooohhh I remeber, they are in the USA showing them how to do it…
Everybody is concern about countries. The only thing I though while watching this was, poor earth. Every action has a reaction.
But fortunately humanrace is going to perish and hopefully earth & survived animals, bugs and other seemingly more intelligent living organisms can continue.
Let’s nuke the peace protestors brothers and sisters ! That’ll shut up the God damn whinging. Signed: Uncle Sam, Washington. Vlad the Rusky, Benny the Jew, Mad Mullahs the world over. Best Wishes Julian Horsfield. (Go public).
No wonder cancer is so common for the last two generations and beyond. Now I’m beginning to believe it’s not the cigs and the junk foods causing the happy little tumors to grow in our bodies.
Wow, I had no idea there were so many tests in the western US. No wonder they had us school kids all taking goiter pills!
Damn poms nuking Australia!!
Scientists now believe we have very little to do with global climate change? Ummm….NOT. Scientists overwhelmingly believe that WE are the primary cause of climate change, NOT the sun. Where are you getting this disinformation?
maybe all this has something to do with all the cancer these days???
So many people asking why,,
well, i got a serious answer and a less serious one:
Serious answer:
Theoretical physics will only get you so far, you need to make tests to see how something really behaves, just look at the castle bravo nuclear test, that really shows the importance of testing.
Less serious:
Well, have you ever gotten a box of firecrackers and then decided to let them stay in the garage and forget about em?
I’m no Einstein but if Castle Bravo was 750x the size of Fatman & that killed over 200k Japanese.. then knowing that in 1954.. CB had the potential to kill + or – some 150mil people in a similarly populated area & it contaminated roughly 1% of the earth.. it should have been a no-brainer then & there to put a a great big kibosh on testing out those firecrackers forever.
The moral of if this story people is that over 2000 explosions since 1945. And you wonder why things are the way they are?
The cause of cancer is un masked…….