MUST WATCH: Nuclear Detonations, 1945 - 1998

[if0x]

This YouTube vid needs a post to itself:

Isao Hashimoto's Time-Lapse animation of nuclear explosions, 1945 - 1998.

Comments

[aome]

The girls and I are boggling. Those can't all be bombs of Hiroshima/Nagasaki caliber, though - what other sorts of nuclear weapons and explosions were going on? I had honestly no idea there had been that much nuclear activity going on - not a clue.

[if0x]

With the exception of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, these are all 'test' explosions, I believe. It's still quite staggering - I had no idea that so many 'tests' had been conducted... nor that quite so many had been performed in the US.

[sophie10]

I had no idea there had been so many, or that the UK had done so many tests. Really quite terrifying.

[if0x]

I had no idea that there'd been 2,000+ nuclear tests either. As you say, terrifying...

[uninvitedcat]

That's just *chilling*

[if0x]

When you see how the count ramps up in the 50s, compared to the 40s, you can start to see how tensions built up so massively in the Cold War, I guess.

[cynthia_black]

I remember seeing all the Greenpeace protests about the tests in the Pacific back in the 70's and 80's - I didn't realise there had been so many of them though.

[if0x]

I certainly remember hearing about some of those Greenpeace protests, but I'd been under the impression that testing was conducted relatively rarely... quite astonished just how much was going on, now...