Uploaded by Josip Šulj: Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the two-thousand and fifty-three nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998....
Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon.... Hashimoto ...says that he created it with the goal of showing "the fear and folly of nuclear weapons." It starts really slow — but the buildup becomes overwhelming.
Somehow profoundly beautiful...*
*The 3-1/4 mile diameter fireball from the Operation Ivy - Mike Event was the largest ever produced. The destructive effects were so great that the test island disappeared.
[Photo from the National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office]
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