A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto



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

  1. "THE NUCLEAR EJACULATION RACE"
  2. - Huh, those enemies are really dangerous. Any ideas how to threaten them?
    - Sure! We just have to nuke our own territory 700-1000 times in the next 50 years! That will show them!
  3. was this video made from an Atari 2100?
  4. Suramérica esa free paz
  5. These motherfuckers need Jesus.
  6. French assholes had to bomb the most beautiful places with 80% of there nukes
  7. America and Russia need to cut this shit out. And we say China is bad.
  8. America was a little trigger happy
  9. russia bombed the crap out of itself.
  10. Rumor was that spy satellites observed a small nuclear explosion off the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) in 1983, IIRC. It was believed to be Israel's lone, secret nuclear bomb test. The fruits of that research are now strapped to Jericho III missiles in case Israel gets carried away. When comparing the cost of maintaining standing armies with modern weapons and electronics to nuclear weapons, the nukes win every time. Since North Korea's military is trapped in 1975 technology, they went the cheap route for armed diplomacy. Personally, I think most of North Korea's threats and posturing are meant for home political consumption to keep the Kim's on top and everyone else firmly down. If it can extort some economic support, all the better for the Kim's.
  11. It sounds like a techno song in 1959
  12. The United States has spent about $5 TRILLION on nukes since 1945...

    Source:
    Schwartz, Stephen I. “Atomic Audit | Brookings Institution.” Brookings, Brookings, 18 Aug. 2016, www.brookings.edu/book/atomic-audit/. Accessed 18 Apr. 2017.
  13. loving the melody
  14. omfg really 2000+ times? I thought only 50 times
  15. I am just wondering if the bombs used in places where's there's Diamonds if that would be enough to change it via the massive forces & heat generated ?
  16. Israel......
  17. Thanks these countries! ;) You're all well! Idiots!
  18. I can it all☠
  19. but why?
  20. The relative sizes are not shown. Obviously Tsar Bomba cannot be a dot comparable to a tiny French test.


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Duration: 14m 25s

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