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[Video] Artist's Time-Lapse Map of the World's 2053 Nuclear Explosions (readwriteweb)
For those of us that came of age during the 1980s and after, the threat of
nuclear oblivion has never seemed to be a real threat. The dangers of AIDS,
economic failure, terrorism have loomed large in the lives of Generation X, Y
and the Millennials, but very few of us ever had to hide under our desks
during a bomb drill or watch Dad obsess over the backyard underground bunker.In 2003, Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto created a time-lapse video map of
every nuclear bomb explosion in the world between 1945 and 1998. There were
2053 explosions in that time, including the tests that the United States made
during the "Manhattan Project" and the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
that ostensibly ended World War II. The 14-minute long video (below) is a
beautiful and terrifying look at the nuclear era that defined world politics,
warfare and humanity for more than half a century._Sponsor_Hashimoto is a curator at the Lalique Museum in Hakone, Japan. The video was
created in 2003 as a series expressing Hashimoto's view of, "the fear and the
folly of nuclear weapons." The video represents nuclear tests with a ...
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