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 Nuclear testing from Trinity in 1945 until 1998
""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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FASCINATING
A dazzling display of Male aggression. Little boys playing with dangerous toys. And where did it get them? It just keeps reoccurring throughout History. Thank you for posting.
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Thanks for posting
Wow that is a lot of radiation on the West Coast of the USA. My favourite film on the cold war era is Dr Strangelove (or how I learnt to stop worrying and love the bomb). Sometimes comedy can be the shining beacon and a mirror to reflect the madness of nuclear bombs/warfare www.youtube.com
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Perhaps my favorite flick ever
is Dr. Strangelove! It is brilliant.
I've actually been to the Trinity site and stood on the exact location where they tested the first nuclear bomb, called The Gadget. It is an eerie and reverential place, knowing what transpired after that first successful drop.
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