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/
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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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.
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.
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 !
Dirty French pricks nuclear testing in the south pacific.
The early eighties was great! sounded like a kraftwerk tune.
… under a class Z movie.