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

[Shallah Kali]

Run time: 14:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY   Posted on YouTube: October 24, 2010 By YouTube Member: aConcernedHuman Views on YouTube: 138332   Posted on DU: March 17, 2011 By DU Member: Shallah Kali Views on DU: 1365

 

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/



snip

"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."

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. We won!!! We exploded the most bombs!!!!!

USA!....USA!.....USA!

[azul]

3. It is like we bombed our own countries

-the cold wars were hot at home.

(England got to bomb Australia and the US, and France bombed the heck out of the Pacific and Africa.)

[felix_numinous]

2. Wow

The Clinton years didn't have any explosions in the US. I wonder what the map looked like during GWB era.

[EnviroBat]

4. It's shocking to me that we still ave a Western United States.

We've been microwaving the shit out of the region for decades now...

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Wonder why cancer rates have been increasing...hmmmmmmm

That really cracks me up. Every once in a while the it is reported that cancer rates have continued to increase in the USA, and no one can figure out why.

[PA Democrat]

6. Think of the money spent on perfecting the cause of killing.....

imagine if the money had been spent instead on the cause of improving life.

[proud patriot]

7. Stunning

:wow:

[Shallah Kali]

8. NatGeo: Compensating Life Downwind of Nevada

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0211/feature1/online_extra.html

RELATED LINKS
Radiation Exposure Compensation Program
www.usdoj.gov/civil/torts/const/reca/
Go to this site to learn about RECA and download claim forms.

National Cancer Institute: About Radiation Fallout
rex.nci.nih.gov/INTRFCE_GIFS/radiation_fallout/radiation_131.html
This website lists the full 1997 report on exposure to iodine 131 from atomic bombs detonated above ground at the Nevada Test Site, along with fact sheets, a dose calculator, and state and county exposures.

A Feasibility Study of the Health Consequences to the American Population From Nuclear Weapons Tests Conducted by the United States and Other Nations
www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/fallout/default.htm
Download the report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from this site.

National Association of Radiation Survivors
www.radiationsurvivors.org
This website offers a summary of issues and legislative history regarding radiation victims.

[Shallah Kali]

9. 1997 abc news: New study links radiation fallout from atomic bomb testing to thyroid cancer.

Aug. 1, 1997: Atomic Testing and Cancer Risk
New study links radiation fallout from atomic bomb testing to thyroid cancer.
http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/aug-1997-atomic-testing-cancer-risk-10749772

[Overseas]

10. Sad K&R.

I didn't realize there had been so many nuclear explosions on earth already.

And so many American ones.

[stlsaxman]

11. unbelievable that there's still a planet!

[Shallah Kali]

12. Bikini’s Tragic Heritage

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/6414/bikinis_tragic_heritage

The UN declared the Marshall Islands a trust of the United States in 1947, a move “intended to promote the welfare of the native inhabitants and to advance them toward self government.” But even before trusteeship, the United States began to use the Marshall Islands as a proving ground for nuclear weapons. From June 1946 to August 1958, 67 nuclear tests were conducted there.

The most powerful bomb detonated on the islands was the hydrogen bomb “Bravo,” on March 1, 1954. Estimated to produce around four megatons of power, it unexpectedly produced 15 megatons, an impact equivalent to 1,000 Hiroshima bombs. In shifting winds, the fallout from the huge explosion reached the inhabited islands of Rongerik, Rongelap and Utirik, more than 100 miles to the east. Contaminating more than 7,000 square miles of the Pacific Ocean with radiation, fallout from the blast also reached Australia, India and Japan. Ocean currents carried the radioactive fallout northwest, where the crew of the Japanese fishing boat Lucky Dragon Number 5 suffered radioactive poisoning resulting in the death of one fisherman.

But the greatest tragedy struck the heavily radiated northern Marshall Islands. In November 1995, Marshall Islander Lijon Eknilang appeared before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague and gave this chilling first-hand account of the effects of nuclear testing in the Pacific: “Women have experienced many reproductive cancers and abnormal births … In privacy, they give birth, not to children as we like to think of them, but to things we could only describe as ‘octopuses,’ ‘apples,’ ‘turtles,’ ” Lijon said, who herself has had seven miscarriages and no live births.

“The most common birth defects … have been ‘jellyfish’ babies. These babies are born with no bones in their bodies and with transparent skin,” she continued. “Many women die from abnormal pregnancies, and those who survive give birth to what looks like purple grapes, which we quickly hide away and bury.”

[spooked911]

13. that is stunning and disturbing

god help us

[demwing]

14. For Those Who Could Not See/Recognize All The Flags..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_testing

The nuclear powers have conducted more than 2,000 nuclear test explosions (numbers are approximated, as some test results have been disputed):


United States: 1,054 tests by official count (involving at least 1,151 devices, 331 atmospheric tests), most at Nevada Test Site and the Pacific Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands, with 10 other tests taking place at various locations in the United States, including Amchitka Alaska, Colorado, Mississippi, and New Mexico (see Nuclear weapons and the United States for details).


Soviet Union: 715 tests (involving 969 devices) by official count, most at Semipalatinsk Test Site and Novaya Zemlya, and a few more at various sites in Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine.


France: 210 tests by official count (50 atmospheric, 160 underground), 4 atomic atmospheric tests at C.E.S.M. near Reggane, 13 atomic underground tests at C.E.M.O. near In Ekker in the then-French Algerian Sahara, and nuclear atmospheric tests at Fangataufa and nuclear undersea tests Moruroa in French Polynesia. Additional atomic and chemical warfare tests took place in the secret base B2-Namous, near Ben Wenif, other tests involving rockets and missiles at C.I.E.E.S, near Hammaguir, both in the Sahara.


United Kingdom: 45 tests (21 in Australian territory, including 9 in mainland South Australia at Maralinga and Emu Field, some at Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean, plus many others in the United States as part of joint test series)


China: 45 tests (23 atmospheric and 22 underground, at Lop Nur Nuclear Weapons Test Base, in Malan, Xinjiang)


India: 6 underground tests (including the first one in 1974), at Pokhran.


Pakistan: 6 underground tests, at Ras Koh Hills, Chagai District and Kharan Desert, Kharan District in Balochistan Province.


North Korea: two tests at Hwadae-ri.