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Artist Project Illustrates “Fear and Folly” of Nukes

Categories: East Asia, Eastern & Central Europe, Oceania, Western Europe, Japan, U.S.A., Arts & Culture, Environment, History, War & Conflict

A map created by Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto [1] – 橋本公 – shows all the 2,053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998.

According to the CTBTO website that hosts the time-lapse video, the artist created it with the goal of showing “the fear and folly of nuclear weapons.”

Hashimoto has also created a video that simply lists the names of all the atomic bombs launched in the past century.