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Title: A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto
Added: Oct 24, 2010
Author: aConcernedHuman
Duration: 14:25
Description:
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 HASHIMOTOBorn 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).
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Youtube Comments: 3569
PinkieDash9000 Says:
May 27, 2012 - what the hell is that even supposed to mean? speak English next time.
Orpheonix Says:
May 27, 2012 - The hell went down on October of '57? @3:50
keoism Says:
May 27, 2012 - gotta love humans for shitting in their own backyard
discohaus Says:
May 27, 2012 - Interesting that GB and FR didn't test near home at all. Poor Australia and Africa!
doubleo077 Says:
May 27, 2012 - why the west coast is not eliminated after that ?
BlizzardAW Says:
May 27, 2012 - 1959: The Year of Peace
nekedemus Says:
May 27, 2012 - I was born.
Ruzlier Says:
May 27, 2012 - Actually, the soviet union beat America in quality.
Vonnsdabomb Says:
May 27, 2012 - that might be nevada and not new mexico
Foosamon Says:
May 27, 2012 - I wonder if Iran will be added to that list soon.
MrJamesIkanov Says:
May 27, 2012 - actually, no.... Go look up Bikini Atoll Nuclear tests. they used dozens, if not hundreds of small island chains. most of them were inhabited.
MrJamesIkanov Says:
May 27, 2012 - I.... Don't want to live on this planet anymore. [/.jpg I don't want to live on this planet anymore.]2050+ nuclear tests..... we've detonated more weapons of ultimate mass destruction thatn years we've been in A.D..... that's just..... sad.
gobo760 Says:
May 27, 2012 - lol, I live like right under the biggest, whitest bubble. Fun :)
210SASXYZ Says:
May 27, 2012 - No its that soviet russia has the most nukes but america did the most test
Ruzlier Says:
May 27, 2012 - I guess it all depends on what you base it on, but the Soviet Unions Tsar bomb is the biggest. America set off the most, but the soviet union has the most.
waltciii3 Says:
May 28, 2012 - That would be New Mexico and Nevada in the U.S. and all the detonations after 1963 were agreed to be undergound.
wanted2001100 Says:
May 28, 2012 - USSR ROCK!
Little Mac Says:
May 28, 2012 - Fucking retards for setting off so many. Scientists say the chenoble and fukajima will effect the world and every living thing for thousands of years. And then you have all those bombs tests, why do they do this!?!?!
Bigjoedo66 Says:
May 28, 2012 - Outstanding, yet sobering Video.
OptimusJel Says:
May 28, 2012 - They kept setting them off because they had different technologies: fusion, fission, implosions, nuetron, hydrogen etc. All had different yeilds (from a few kiloton to multiple megaton)
gobo760 Says:
May 28, 2012 - because like any invention, they keep improving the designs, trying to squeeze more destructive power out of bombs that are more streamlined and cheaper to make. Since radioactivity does all kinds of bizarre and unpredictable things to electronic components, and because you never know what you really have until you test it... they do a lot of testing, especially after they make major modifications to the previous design.
MrSlim451 Says:
May 26, 2012 - england detonating a nuke in America? Hmm. Imagine all the irradiated and mutated fish swimming around.