What I see in this chart is that even at its height, the Soviet Union was never really close to competing with NATO’s arsenal. I also see that I don’t really want to drink the water in Nevada, the South Pacific, Xinjiang, southern Algeria, or southern/eastern Kazakhstan. Finally, it seems that the Fifth French Republic has had a bit of a Napoleon complex.

ilovecharts:

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.

-xwidep

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    Just flip through this…seriously. It’s amazing just how many...there have been…...

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    within 1945-1998.

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    say…many things came...mind…did you notice how scarce they got when clinton took office?

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