Uploaded by aConcernedHuman on Oct 24, 2010
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.
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Specifically atmospheric? Good question. Perhaps Nuclear Explosion Data Base (NEDB) has the answer?
http://www.rdss.info/database/nedb/nedb_ent.html
It seems like you'll have to do a LOT of research to get what you're looking for. There may be a way to get the information from the government under the freedom of information act...
this reminds me of an issue i was looking to get information on for certain stellar topography reasons. Do you or does anyone for that matter know of where i can get as full of a list as possible of the dates, times, locations of each single atmospheric nuclear detonation. I want to do a vector analysis of the impact overall of the nuclear detonations on planetary orbit and orbital rate.
It is sad... to see these countries explode them only as a show of force... to look stronger than the others... and the whole time they are just blowing the shit out of themselves.
2053 nuclear explosions in 36 yrs.and it hasn't stopped.It's frightening and very.very sad.