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The rise of nuclear bombs: Amazing time-lapse map reveals 2,056 WMDs that have exploded in just 50 years
Since the U.S unleashed the first nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki back in 1945 there have been a staggering 2056 nuclear tests recorded worldwide.
It took almost a year until the next substantial tests took place but by the mid-50s and 60s, nuclear experiments were being recorded across the globe on almost a monthly basis.
To demonstrate the scale and development of this technology, Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has plotted all these explosions that took place from 1945 up to 1998 in a time-lapse video map.
It begins with the Manahattan Project’s ‘Trinity’ test in 1945 in Los Alamos
The video ends with Pakistan’s nuclear tests that took place in May 1998
By By August 1945, the Manhattan Project had developed and tested atomic bombs at its Los Alamos base and on 6 August, a Little Boy atomic bomb, left, was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed by a Fat Man bomb,right, on Nagasaki three days later.
The blasts are said to have killed a total of 245,000 deaths by November 1945 and the effects from radiation are still reported to this day.
On 15 August, Japan surrendered and signed the Instrument of Surrender on September 2, officially ending World War II.
Mail Online
Video and text here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2475008/The-rise-nuclear-bombs-Amazing-time-lapse-map-reveals-2-056-WMDs-exploded-just-50-years.html
