Nuclear Experiments Video Shows Detonations Around The World

A new video shows each one of the nuclear detonations to be set off around the globe since 1945.

Created by Isao Hashimoto, "1945-1998" features a digital world map in two shades of blue. As each year ticks by, blinking red and blue lights illuminate on the screen, showing when, where and how many nuclear experiments each country has conducted. A tally is kept next to a tiny icon of each world flag indicating the total number of experiments in each given country.

"No letter is used for equal messaging to all viewers without language barrier," Hashimoto, who works as a curator at the Lalique Museum in Hakone, Japan, reportedly said. "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."

View "1945-1998" below:

Comments

[Philip Culbertson]

03:41 PM on 01/06/2011

Interesting to note that 23 Nukes were tested in Algeria by France. Also, I didn't see any tests during the duration of the Clinton Administration shown. However, Bush Sr. and Reagan really got their rocks off.

[guinganbresil]

09:31 AM on 01/06/2011

US Cancer Mortality Rates for some cancers associated w/ fallout:

US Bone: http://cancercontrolplanet.cancer.gov/atlas/timeall.jsp?c=BON&o=g&wm=true&wf=true&bm=true&bf=true&fc=timeall&chart=timeall&ac=1&ss=US

US Leukemia: http://cancercontrolplanet.cancer.gov/atlas/timeall.jsp?c=LEU&o=g&wm=true&wf=true&bm=true&bf=true&fc=timeall&chart=timeall&ac=1&ss=US

US Thyroid: http://cancercontrolplanet.cancer.gov/atlas/timeall.jsp?c=THY&o=g&wm=true&wf=true&bm=true&bf=true&fc=timeall&chart=timeall&ac=1&ss=US

US Lung: http://cancercontrolplanet.cancer.gov/atlas/timeall.jsp?c=LUN&o=g&wm=false&wf=true&bm=false&bf=true&fc=timeall&chart=timeall&ac=1&ss=US

[TovSquirrel]

02:50 AM on 01/06/2011

An unused weapon is a useless weapon.
--General Curtis LeMay

[l8tapex]

12:28 PM on 01/06/2011

Source please?

[MR R]

02:29 AM on 01/06/2011

CRAP!
ive been to vegas 3 times!

though i suppose with so many set off all over the world no where is really safe... i need to start digging my bunker...

[Independent1969]

06:03 PM on 01/05/2011

I just have to ask.. Why?

[KIVPossum]

01:53 PM on 01/05/2011

We're #1, we're #1.

[EuropeWindAndFire]

05:24 PM on 01/05/2011

Your tax-dollars at work.

[KBES]

12:49 PM on 01/05/2011

America had the most out of all. How many times do you need to see what a nuck can do? Once is enough for me

[vascopyjama]

10:03 PM on 01/05/2011

That's how the military brass get their rocks off. Look we have a bigger club than you and we are the only one to have used it on others.

[MMRDO]

01:31 AM on 01/06/2011

Nuclear warheads are aimed at other launch sites. You want to take out their missiles before they launch. You wouldn't want to screw that up.

[padrushka]

03:37 AM on 01/06/2011

Yes..

[don]

10:29 PM on 01/05/2011

The tests were intended to verify the viability of the nuclear arsenal. The thinking goes that you have to check them every so often to be sure that they still work. Use google maps and take a look at the Nevada Proving Grounds south east of Las Vegas. It will astound you.

[Flat Harrold]

12:12 PM on 01/05/2011

Something eerily poetic about the video and its accompanying music. (emphasis on eery)

[scarletfire1978]

11:42 AM on 01/05/2011

And scientists wonder why cancer rates have soared since the 1940's!!!!!

[Rich Phitzwell]

10:52 AM on 01/05/2011

From an economic stand point, think of the cost to develop and then destroy each of these for a weapon that can never be used again.
http://www.brookings.edu/projects/archive/nucweapons/50.aspx

[BassguyGG]

10:03 AM on 01/05/2011

Although I am worried about some countries that are nuclear powers (India, Pakistan, N. Korea, Israel, soon Iran), I am much more worried about what happened to the nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union states in Central Asia like Kyrgyzstan, Tyrkenistan, Azerbijan, etc. that once housed them. What happened to them? What would stop their corrupt leaders from selling them? Who's even paying attention? Since the end of the Cold War, I've feared a nuclear war started by some rogue state or entity rather than the states who are known nuclear powers.

[thomas meno]

01:08 PM on 01/05/2011

I fear Israel above others as well they are a rogue state that does not allow inspectors or even officials admit they have them. Iran and North Korea boost they going have them more as levage then using them. It the ones that have them and do not admit that are less likely to use them.

[cliffhammond]

04:40 AM on 01/05/2011

No wonder Harry Reid doesn't have any balls.

[GonzoLoungeLizard]

10:51 PM on 01/04/2011

The 1990s were the best anyway you look at it.

[ivan kovac]

07:56 PM on 01/04/2011

I'm surprised there wasn't a huge accident.

[Rude Monk]

09:27 PM on 01/04/2011

There were accidents.Soviets had at least two.

[l8tapex]

11:12 AM on 01/05/2011

A Japanese fishing boat and crew were irradiated in 1954 when the first US thermonuclear bomb was exploded in the Pacific. The blast was twice as powerful as had been calculated, and fallout fell outside the test zone. One crewman on the boat died 7 months later of radiation sickness. Then there were missed targets, and "Broken Arrows" (lost weapons, some never recovered.

[Reed Boyer]

06:50 PM on 01/04/2011

Brings a whole new and depressing spin to the phrase "We're Number One."