A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 – by Isao Hashimoto
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’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan’s nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea’s two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear).
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”the fear and folly of nuclear weapons.” It starts really slow — if you want to see real action, skip ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming.
http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/
Multimedia artwork
“2053″ – This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe.*
Profile of the artist: Isao HASHIMOTO
Born in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan in 1959.
Worked for 17 years in financial industry as a foreign exchange dealer. Studied at Department of Arts, Policy and Management of Musashino Art University, Tokyo.
Currently working for Lalique Museum, Hakone, Japan as a curator.
Created artwork series expressing, in the artist’s view, “the fear and the folly of nuclear weapons”:
“1945-1998″ © 2003
“Overkilled”
“The Names of Experiments”
About “1945-1998″ ©2003
“This piece of work is a bird’s eye view of the history by scaling down a month length of time into one second. No letter is used for equal messaging to all viewers without language barrier. The blinking light, sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country have conducted. I created this work for the means of an interface to the people who are yet to know of the extremely grave, but present problem of the world.”
Contact the artist:
Should you have any query regarding this artwork, please contact e-mail address below:
hashi123@amy.hi-ho.ne.jp
* The number excludes both tests by North Korea (October 2006 and May 2009).
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Dec 25, 2012 @ 16:41:12
One can only ask "Why?"
Dec 25, 2012 @ 16:57:39
And they told us: "Background radiation is so high…". But why is so high?
Dec 25, 2012 @ 16:57:39
And they told us: "Background radiation is so high…". But why is so high?
Dec 25, 2012 @ 18:05:48
Man's greatest enemy is not some wild dog running in the streets, but each other thinking that we constantly have to prove who is stronger, better, smarter, richer and more right than the other. Ironically, many of us, teach our children that it's by one's example they will win and influence others, which is a noble right thing. However, somehow from childhood to adulthood we abandon that philosophy and take on a personna that 'might makes right', and then we try to see how many will either follow us in believing that or how many we can suppress under it. Fortunately, not all of us are like this, except those that get the most attention.
We're forgetting to pay attention and remember the noble elders amongst us, rather than a few old men who have an agenda to subject the world to themselves through the efforts of ourselves.
Jan 14, 2013 @ 13:26:45
exceptional find thank you
Dec 25, 2012 @ 20:11:59
Well, well well are they the "seven angels"? Would this explain all this suffering? http://positivemed.com/2012/12/23/no-excuses/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Positivemed+%28PositiveMed%29
Dec 30, 2012 @ 03:10:19
Mar 11, 2013 @ 16:30:46
Just why? -.-
Mar 11, 2013 @ 18:46:58
What about Israel?
Mar 11, 2013 @ 18:46:58
What about Israel?
Mar 11, 2013 @ 18:46:58
What about Israel?