#Nuclear time lapse video series

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.

The blinking light, sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country have conducted. No letter is used for equal messaging to all viewers without language barrier. Isao Hashimoto: “This piece of work is a bird’s eye view of the history by scaling down a month length of time into one second. The inspiration for this project was A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since. Watching the entire 14 minute clip really gives you a sense of the beginnings in fits and starts, and the advancements of the nuclear weapons age. We have hand picked the best time-lapse videos for you to watch. It picks up in 1958, then some real action starting 1962 or so. The time lapse of nuclear explosions starts slow. Fluorescent time-lapse video of nucleoplasm and chromatin during transient nuclear membrane rupture Emily M Hatch and Martin W Hetzer Nuclear envelope. Hashimoto, who began the project in 2003, says that he created it with the goal of showing “the fear and folly of nuclear weapons.” There’s a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen.

#Nuclear time lapse video series

This leaves out North Korea’s two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear).Įach nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon. In time lapse mode, a series of images are captured at preset times, which can be seconds or minutes apart and then saved as a video clip for presentation. It begins with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos, and concludes with Pakistan’s nuclear tests in May of 1998. It illustrates a undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2,053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 19. The following video was put together by Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto. We cannot assume that we will always live in a world of conventional warfare with such a nuclear arsenal at the ready, and possibly in the hands of those who wish to do us harm – or those who are sociopath/psychopathic ‘rulers’. It is something that we might think about and prepare for (to an extent possible). There certainly has been plenty of saber-rattling of late… And one could argue that as time goes on, it becomes more likely that these weapons might be used. Not only that, but more nations are working towards developing their own nuclear weapons today.

However, many, many thousands of nuclear warheads remain. I came across a fascinating time lapse video of nuclear explosions since 1945, and I thought I would share it with you for your interest…ĭuring the years some of the world’s nuclear arsenal has been dismantled. Fortunately, depending on how you look at it, all but two of them have been detonated for testing rather than having been used for war. There have been 2,055 nuclear explosions since the very first in 1945.