2,053 Nuclear Explosions in One Video

Check out this video by artist Isao Hashimoto showing every nuclear test from the Manhattan Project (Trinity test) in 1945 and a Pakistani test in 1998. Totaling 2,053 tests the video is a truly frightening spectacle, providing insight into the grave threat that nuclear weapons pose. The number of tests is at first low, but by the late 1950’s it begins to increase. By 1962, testing peaks with over a hundred blasts in one year. At the end of the video, Hashimoto runs through tests by country in order to show which countries are blowing up bombs and where. 

Here is a quote from Isao Hashimoto commenting on the piece: “This piece of work is a bird’s eye view of the history by scaling down a month length of time into one second. No letter is used for equal messaging to all viewers without language barrier. The blinking light, sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country have conducted. I created this work for the means of an interface to the people who are yet to know of the extremely grave, but present problem of the world.“

  

Countries testing nuclear weapons (ranked by total number of official tests conducted):

1. United States - 1,045
2. Soviet Union - 715
3. France - 210
4. United Kingdom - 45
5. China - 45
6. India - 6
7. Pakistan - 6

Note: This video does not display the rumored North Korean tests in 2006 and 2009.

Source: http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/