Posted on 09/11/2010 9:58:26 AM PDT by altair
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":
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:
hashi123ping@amy.hi-ho.nepong.jp
* The number excludes both tests by North Korea (October 2006 and May 2009).
The four flags across the top are Great Britain, France, Soviet Union/Russia, USA. The three flags across the bottom are Pakistan, India and China.
Click on the link to get to the videos.
...and we're still here!
No nuclear winter at all.
Still, life is better without nuclear bombs going off all around you.
Here are some more nice nuclear explosion photos:
radiochemistry.org/history/nuke_tests/index.shtml
Our dots are blue and the USSR /Chinese dots are red.
OK media presentation.
No nuclear winter at all.
Still, life is better without nuclear bombs going off all around you.
I don't know how many of those were above ground. I thought we had banned nuclear testing throughout some of that period, but it sure didn't seem like it.
The dirty secret is that a limited nuclear exchange of 100 or 200 bombs doesn't seem likely to wipe everything out.
Thanks for the link. I guess I have a fascination with watching explosions, so long as it isn't very close to me and isn't blowing people up.
(As much of a pacifist as I am, I am NOT in favor of unilateral disarmament).
I don’t understand why we had to keep testing over and over and over. And then expect there to be no problems with fallout. USA #1!
Are those separate questions or the same question? We have to keep testing as the bombs are improved. Computer modeling can only do so much.
We didn't know anything about the effects due to exposure to radiation. I don't find it surprising at all that everyone associated with the earliest nuclear testing ended up having greatly shortened lives due to cancer. (Which includes Dr. Marie Curie who "discovered" radiation).
After the Cuban missile crisis, the Limited Test Ban Treaty was signed which prohibited anything other underground testing. Someone was thinking about it, at least by 1963.
The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty is another matter altogether. That would be folly to sign & ratify and maintain a defensive nuclear arsenal. (The watchdog organization for that as yet unimplemented treaty is the site where this video came from).
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