Sunday, August 01, 2010

"1945-1998" - Mapping Nuclear Explosions

Gizmodo pointed to this piece of art, "1945-1998" by Isao Hashimoto saying "This video, by artist Isao Hashimoto, charts every nuclear detonation from the US's tests in 1945 to the modern era. Even if you're versed in history, it still offers a perspective that's tough to entirely grasp in numbers alone."



I had no idea that the US set off close to 1000 nuclear explosion within our own borders.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Would you like to play a game?

Joshua

Anonymous said...

Shall we play a game?

Anonymous said...

I wasn't sure I had it right.

Thanks for the clarification.

As I was watching the Hashimoto video I immediately flashed (no pun intended) back to the end of War Games.

Given the number of nuclear test explosions, it's a good thing above ground testing essentially stopped in 1964.

See the following link for dramatic data on the level of atmospheric radioactive carbon-14 during the "atomic age"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Radiocarbon_bomb_spike.svg

TT