Nuking The World
Japanese artist maps 1945-1998's nuclear explosions
"A Japanese artist named Isao Hashimoto has created a series of works about nuclear weapons. One is titled "1945-1998" and shows a history of the world's nuclear explosions.
Over the course of fourteen and a half minutes, every single one of the 2053 nuclear tests and explosions that took place between 1945 and 1998 are is plotted on a map.
A metronomic beep every second represents months passing, and a different tone indicates explosions from different countries. It starts out slowly, with the Manhattan Project's single test in the US and the two terrible bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended World War II.
After a couple of minutes or so, however, once the USSR and Britain entered the nuclear club, the tests really start to build up, reaching a peak of nearly 140 in 1962, and remaining well over 40 each year until the mid-80s."
posted by nolocontendere at 9:25 PM
2 Comments:
Dang, never realized how many nukes had been detonated, and of course, the US Empire leads the way!
What seems funny to me is that even after Reagan pushed for nuclear non-proliferation in the late 80s, and the USSR fell apart, the US was still setting the dang things off well into the 90s.
Aside from the ugliness of doing this to our planet ande wafting radiation around the world, the hidden, black government has science fiction weapons that dwarf the destructive capabilities of nukes. For decades the nuclear weapons programs have been trillion dollar cash cows for the military/corporate parasites.
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