Japanese artist maps all nuclear explosions from 1945 to 1998

This week marks 65 years since the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

These two and 200000+ others didn’t survive.

The incident brought an early end to the second world war and marked the beginning of more safer and a more peace-loving period, a true nuclear renaissance of humanity with yet more bombs, explosions and harmful psychopaths on the highest political positions.

A Japanese artist named Isao Hashimoto in 2003 released a video that shows all nuclear detonations between 1945 and 1998 on the map of the world.

The ten-minute show kicks off with the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test bombing in the desert near Los Alamos in the US and concludes with a majestic series of Pakistani nuclear tests in 1998. In the beginning, the explosions are relatively rare, so if you want real action, fast-forward to 1962. Total number of detonations is 2053; the players are the United States, Russia/USSR, France, United Kingdom, China, India and Pakistan.

The digits in the upper right corner are month and year. The bottom right shows the total count of explosions.

Like a computer game.