Animated map of nuclear explosions, 1945-1998 ..

Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto's "1945-1998" is an animated map showing the 2,053 nuclear explosions that took place around the world during the 20th century, from the detonations at Alamogordo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to the tests conducted by India and Pakistan in 1998.

Animated map of nuclear explosions, 1945-1998 ::: Pink Tentacle

 

Well done, sniper! Remarkable that this old planet has sustained over 2,000 nukes and keeps going!

 

they are mad? thats the only way to explain mans desire to destroy this planet......

 

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."

--Stephen Hawking

 

Mesmerising

 

...and remember the surviving residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki moved back in and made homes out of the rubble within days of the explosions.

And the people of Utah and Nevada should be glowing in the dark as observed above.

 

it's a wonder the planet does'nt fragment, underground detonations must have an impact!...

 

i thought the U.S. and other countries decided not to use nuclear bombs since Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

 

Would have made for a more interesting cold war if they had

Underground Tests in the United States continued until 1992 (its last nuclear testing), the Soviet Union in 1990, the United Kingdom in 1991, and both China and France in 1996. After adopting the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1996, all of these states have pledged to discontinue all nuclear testing. Non-signatories India and Pakistan last tested nuclear weapons in 1998.
The most recent nuclear test was announced by North Korea on May 25, 2009.

 

Effects of Nuclear Explosions
from link...
Nuclear explosions produce both immediate and delayed destructive effects. Immediate effects (blast, thermal radiation, prompt ionizing radiation) are produced and cause significant destruction within seconds or minutes of a nuclear detonation. The delayed effects (radioactive fallout and other possible environmental effects) inflict damage over an extended period ranging from hours to centuries, and can cause adverse effects in locations very distant from the site of the detonation. only time will tell..

 

That is indeed an eye opening presentation. I can't wait for my co worker who used to work at the atomic museum to get back from vacation to show him.

One thing that would have been cool (though hard to do), would be a way to show the different kinds of tests in a presentation like that (Which ones were atmosperic, underground, underwater, and done in space).

 

not what you meant, darren....

 

oh, i see.

 

Reminds me of the episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine where Quark expresses dismay upon learning that humans test nuclear weapons in their own atmosphere.

Little Green Men

 

"Although there were early concerns about earthquakes arising as a result of underground tests, there is no evidence that this has occurred. However, fault movements and ground fractures have been reported, and explosions often precede a series of aftershocks, thought to be a result of cavity collapse and chimney formation. In a few cases, seismic energy released by fault movements has exceeded that of the explosion itself."

Underground nuclear testing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

I wonder would happend if the atomic bombs were detonated at ground level....

 

That's basically what happened at Trinity, it was only 30m off the ground - an actual exact ground level blast effect can be seen using this tool;

Federation of American Scientists :: Nuclear Weapon Effects Calculator

It's cool, you can bomb every US major city

 

Just like fallout3 i blew up washington dc