“the fear and folly of nuclear weapons”

Have a look at this compelling Jul 6, 2012 released animated bird eye view made video called 1945-1998 (VIDEO). It shows a history of the world’s nuclear explosions made by a Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto. More than 2,000 other tests and billions of dollars having been spent on their development. Over the course of 14.5 minutes, every single one of the 2053 nuclear tests and explosions that took place between 1945 and 1998 are is plotted on a World map. Hashimoto uses a universal metronomic beep that represents months passing, and a different tone indicates explosions from different countries. It starts out slowly, with the Manhattan Project’s single test in the US and the two terrible bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended World War II. (Photo credit Isao Hashimoto)