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Thursday, October 24, 2013

SEVEN MINUTE VIDEO-MAP SHOWING ALL NUCLEAR BOMBS EVER EXPLODED - ALL 2056 OF THEM

Since the U.S unleashed the first nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki back in 1945 there have been a staggering 2056 nuclear tests recorded worldwide.
 
It took almost a year until the next substantial tests took place but by the mid-50s and 60s, nuclear experiments were being recorded across the globe on almost a monthly basis.
 
To demonstrate the scale and development of this technology, Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has plotted all these explosions that took place from 1945 up to 1998 in a time-lapse video map.Hashimoto started the project in 2003 and told Wired he created it with the goal of showing 'the fear and folly of nuclear weapons.'

Read more and see video here
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2475008/The-rise-nuclear-bombs-Amazing-time-lapse-map-reveals-2-053-WMDs-exploded-just-50-years.html

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