{"id":8367,"date":"2010-07-13T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/13\/a-time-lapse-map-of-every-nuclear-detonation\/"},"modified":"2010-07-13T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T16:11:00","slug":"a-time-lapse-map-of-every-nuclear-detonation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/13\/a-time-lapse-map-of-every-nuclear-detonation\/","title":{"rendered":"A time-lapse map of every nuclear detonation between 1945 and 1998"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.geekosystem.com\/every-nuclear-explosion-time-lapse\/'>A time-lapse map of every nuclear detonation between 1945 and 1998<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekosystem.com\/every-nuclear-explosion-time-lapse\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geekosystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/nuke-map.jpg\" align=\"top\" height=\"312\" width=\"472\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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\u2019s \u201cTrinity\u201d test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan\u2019s  nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea\u2019s two alleged  nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is  not 100% clear).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>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\u201dthe fear and folly of nuclear weapons.\u201d It starts really slow \u2014  if you want to see real action, skip ahead to 1962 or so \u2014 but the  buildup becomes overwhelming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Definitely visit the site; I  couldn&rsquo;t embed the video here, just the screen capture above&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A time-lapse map of every nuclear detonation between 1945 and 1998 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\u2019s \u201cTrinity\u201d test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan\u2019s nuclear tests in May of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/13\/a-time-lapse-map-of-every-nuclear-detonation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A time-lapse map of every nuclear detonation between 1945 and 1998&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}