A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto | Tokyo
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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/ Multimedia artwork "2053" - This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe.* Profile of the artist: Isao HASHIMOTO Born in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan in 1959. Worked for 17 years in financial industry as a foreign exchange dealer. Studied at Department of Arts, Policy and Management of Musashino Art University, Tokyo. Currently working for Lalique Museum, Hakone, Japan as a curator. Created artwork series expressing, in the artist's view, "the fear and the folly of nuclear weapons": "1945-1998" © 2003 "Overkilled" "The Names of Experiments" About "1945-1998" ©2003 "This piece of work is a bird's eye view of the history by scaling down a month length of time into one second. No letter is used for equal messaging to all viewers without language barrier. The blinking light, sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country have conducted. 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." Contact the artist: Should you have any query regarding this artwork, please contact e-mail address below: hashi123@amy.hi-ho.ne.jp * The number excludes both tests by North Korea (October 2006 and May 2009).
Comments
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France must really hate fish.
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Is this actually real? the other guy on YouTube say they stopped testing's in Las Vegas in 1958. And did these test bombs have radiation if so how come people are still living in the desert afterwards? They do tests in Arizona and Cali besides Nevada too? Just wondering .
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This is really frightening - all the radioactive Plutonium being released into the atmosphere. No wonder cancer rates increased. ... It wasn't until 1963 that the US, UK and USSR agreed to stop above ground nuclear tests. France stopped above ground tests in 1973 and China even later.
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Russia totally nuked themselves, cause they got so much control of the world , fuckiing joke, the bigger they are the stupidest they get .
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america.... AAaamerica..... AMERICUH!!!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!!
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Please,make a song of this.
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America take it easy on the Nukes
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music to my ears, people trying to destroy themselves without me being involved. oh well. I still don't see how people destroyed every one else yet.
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sounds a bit like music after a while
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This destroyed the ozone layer.
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Holy Fuck! I didn't know the number was that high. You would think we used up all the plutonium by now.
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why did france detonate so many
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Stupid America they were responsible for most of them bloody cunts
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There were 3 nuclear tests held in Australia
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i will download this game later
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list of the most dumbest nations ever existed.
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did this remind anyone of the game simon??
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14 fucking minutes?
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Stop putting fricking GIANT Annotations away that have some kind of link! Just put it in the description. Only 49% of the people are going to see the annotation anyway. -_- Other than that the video is okey.
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I think I'll move to South America or southern Africa looks like the only nuclear free zones