Time lapse map of every nuclear explosion ever on Earth
 

This is well worth a look:

"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."

http://memolition.com/2013/10/16/tim...ever-on-earth/

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Out of curiosity, the places in the US (for example) where the nuclear tests were carried out - are they no-go areas or can people still go there?

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In the US the tests were conducted in parts of the desert states (Nevada if memory serves) that are owned by the millitary, so you won't be going to see them anytime soon...

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Some of them looked like they went off in California, I'd be checking my wine isn't glowing in the dark...

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or if the fault line wasn't getting more, err, faulty...

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I'm just glad our american cousins never actually built one of these

http://blog.seattlepi.com/americanae...ile-from-hell/

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Where do the Israelis test their nuclear devices ?

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Off the coast of Apartheid South Africa

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Iran would be a good option.

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Does this mean, technically, that Britain has nuked USA?

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But America won right?

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This website is blocked in Pakistan...

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2,053 nuclear explosions. I hadn't realised there had been so many. That's scary and rather sickening.

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It's on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U8CZAKSsNA

Pakistan 2, India 4, UK & China 45, France 270, USSR (and it's derivatives) 715 and the good ole u s of ay 1,032

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The Russians haven't been playing with sunshine since the fall of the USSR have they? Even Putin seems to agree with the CTBT, and he'd be sitting out there in swimmers and shades for the manly photo ops given the chance