Time-Lapse Map Video Reveals 2,056 Nuclear Explosions That Have Exploded In Just 50 Years

The Rise Of Nuclear Bombs: Amazing Time-Lapse Map Reveals 2,056 WMDs That Have Exploded In Just 50 Years -- Daily Mail

* The map has been created by Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto
* It begins with the Manahattan Project's 'Trinity' test in 1945 in Los Alamos
* The video ends with Pakistan's nuclear tests that took place in May 1998

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.

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My Comment: I have posted the video before .... but it is still cool to watch. The above video is the slow version, the Daily Mail's version is the faster version.