CaneTalk: Time-lapse of Nuclear Explosions since 1945

Time-lapse of Nuclear Explosions since 1945

Posted by JAC on 6/27/2011, 6:47 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r2VIN4M6QU

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.

In this thread:

Another Nuclear Problem in Japan - JAC, 6/27/2011, 6:28 am

NRC Event Notification Report for June 27, 2011 - JAC, 6/27/2011, 9:44 am
New Mexico wildfires force evacuation at Los Alamos nuclear labratory - JAC, 6/27/2011, 9:38 am
- Mandatory evacuations ordered for Los Alamos - JAC, 6/27/2011, 4:43 pm
  - Close to an above-ground plutonium waste dump - JAC, 6/27/2011, 10:05 pm
    - MSM - JAC, 6/27/2011, 10:07 pm
Time-lapse of Nuclear Explosions since 1945 - JAC, 6/27/2011, 6:47 am
- Re: Time-lapse of Nuclear Explosions since 1945 - BobbiStorm, 6/27/2011, 7:24 am
  - Re: Time-lapse of Nuclear Explosions since 1945 - hanna, 6/27/2011, 10:31 am
  - Can you keep a little secret? - JAC, 6/27/2011, 7:35 am

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