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A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945

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hollygrove
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Now I'll say this, I'm not shitting my pants about the nuclear reactors in Japan that much, I'm not scarfing down Iodine and stopping eating tuna just yet, but this video is undeniably mind opening. How bout this world we live in, hey? Think we've got much time left?


"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."
Apr 1 2011 2:26PM
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GGreene
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pretty crazy for sure. puts things into perspective
Apr 1 2011 2:31PM
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cobra_commander
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Anyone else enjoy the fact that the USA accounts for over 1/2 of all of those booms?

what the fuck 1997? you disappoint me.
Apr 1 2011 2:45PM
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SeanTom
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interesting but that beeping is fucking annoying.

^AMERICA, FUCK YEA
Apr 1 2011 2:51PM
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Flying~Squirrel
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it makes me curious how nevada still exists. and i also like how there have been 2055 dropped but only 2 in combat. what are we learning from all the others? how much fun it is to blow shit up? haha
Apr 1 2011 3:06PM
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Mr.Turtle
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if you have a nuke wouldn't you blow shit up?
Apr 1 2011 3:18PM
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Get.Kronk
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sounds like an epic game of simon says
Apr 1 2011 3:21PM
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rudager
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Kinda disgusts me that it's happened.
How much nuclear testing does the world have to do? People how what the effects were once the first one was dropped.
I just don't see why there has been (or the need) for more than 2000 explosions.
Gad damnit.
Apr 1 2011 3:25PM
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moonofendor
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pretty much how cool it is to blow shit up...

that and the best way to detonate a bomb, such as a ground detonation will be smaller than an air detonation.

Apr 1 2011 3:27PM
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manwich
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Its funny how racist the french are, they bombed the exact same spot in the Niger Nigeria area every single time haha.
Apr 1 2011 3:46PM
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TBigCat
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very racist
Apr 1 2011 3:54PM
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General_Ripper
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Pretty sure they just occupied that area so thats why they preformed tests there. I don't think they actually bombed them.
Apr 1 2011 3:59PM
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Big5hifty
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thats incredible. i had no idea that there were that many explosions. really kind of scary.
Apr 1 2011 4:01PM
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Gstrong
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thats alot of bombs
Apr 1 2011 4:08PM
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COskier
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I had to watch this shit in class a few years ago and the fucking teacher made us watch all 14 minutes, it was ridiculous. Don't forget though that a shit ton of these were tested underground ever since the partial test ban treaty. Except for the French Fuckers who just kept blowing up islands.
Apr 1 2011 4:12PM
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Chunter
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Holyyyy hell California was fucked from the start. Guess we'll see how long I live...
Apr 1 2011 6:28PM
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k-rob
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good thing literally none of those bombs affected me in any way.
Apr 1 2011 6:47PM
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Stan_Darsh
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word. someone told me about this and i have been trying to find it
Apr 1 2011 7:10PM
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family_vacation
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This has nothing to do with my opinions on atomic weapons, but it was a constant race to develop more powerful designs, and new bombs always need tested.
Apr 1 2011 7:18PM
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iSmokeweed
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america wins...AGAIN
Apr 1 2011 7:34PM
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jasontheredhead
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how the fuck are we still alive?
Apr 1 2011 7:39PM
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skier_boy26
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Hashimoto probably uses the words like "fear and folly" because of what America had to do in 1945. Haven't used those bitches since then.

All those tests... nbd. No country has tried to step to the US because of all those nukes. Therefore, America wins.
Apr 1 2011 7:48PM
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Proletariat.
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My comrades ended up beating you in bigger bangs in the end




Apr 1 2011 7:57PM
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Deezy
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just imagine the amount of fun they would be having blowing up all those bombs
i bet america was like... FUCK YEAH and blew a ton up then all the other countries were like... hey, look what they are doing... i wanna do that. then son after everyone was doing it.
Apr 1 2011 8:12PM
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hollygrove
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this guy has the right idea..
Apr 2 2011 1:30AM
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p-fo
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I wonder how many of those 2000+ were before the Atmospheric Test Ban Treaty? It's also crazy how we, the Chinese and the French just kept going until 1998...
Apr 2 2011 1:39AM
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shr@gler
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thank fuck 97. Also im moving to brasil.
Apr 2 2011 2:10AM
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Nadia.
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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

—Albert Einstein

The implication is that WWIII will be fought with nuclear weapons and destroy most of the world reducing us back to the dark ages, isn't humanity awesome?

Status of current nuclear weapon stock worldwide:

~22,600 nuclear warheads worldwide as of feb 2011.

2,000 of those are American and Russian on active "high alert" status, meaning ready to launch.

They wont need 22,600 or even 2,000 to completely destroy the world...
Apr 2 2011 2:29AM
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Proletariat.
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Marry me?
Apr 2 2011 2:49AM
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