Video Depicting Number of Nukes Ever Exploded

[analog_kidd]

http://www.upworthy.com/an-artist-counted-every-atomic-explosion-on-earth-and-shows-them-all-in-a-matter-of-seconds-3

 

Holy Cow! I knew there was testing of Nukes in the past, but I didn't know there were that many  :eek:

 

Give it a minute or so into the video and it really gets going.

[Garufa]

Final Score:  US Wins!

[tnguy]

Gotta love how France and the UK make sure theirs are on a different continent. Makes me so proud.

 

Though I see there were a couple in the US too. Gotta love that special relationship.

Edited January 17, 2014 by tnguy

[E4 No More]

"Do you want to play a game?"

[buck1032]

And that's just the ones published. One has to wonder how many were tested with out public knowledge.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

Most of the later tests were underground anyway.

[tnguy]

I believe they show up on seismographs so secrecy is somewhat limited.

[hipower]

No wonder the left coast is so screwed up...The great majority of US testing is in close proximity to them. Guess there is some fallout damage after all.

[frankmako]

best defense is a good nuke.  lots of good nukes.  

[RC3]

Why is France testing nukes to begin with? Germany will just rape them again if push comes to shove.

[monkeylizard]

Final Score:  US Wins!

Not just wins, but wins by more points than all other players combined!

 

Oh wait....I think this is more like golf where you want a low score to prevent 3-eyed babies.

[buck1032]

I believe they show up on seismographs so secrecy is somewhat limited.

That is true, but that hasn't always been the case. Just from my limited knowledge I like to limit my time in NV. I am surprised that whole state doesn't glow. :stunned:

[Guest kingarmory]

^{And we wonder why cancer is such an epidemic nowadays.  Goddamn gov't nuking its own country to "send a message" to its enemies, "brilliant" doesn't even begin to describe the stupidity in that logic}

Edited January 18, 2014 by kingarmory

[No_0ne]

No wonder the left coast is so screwed up...The great majority of US testing is in close proximity to them. Guess there is some fallout damage after all.

 

Sorry, but the prevailing winds would have carried most of the fallout east of the test sites ...

[Garufa]

Sorry, but the prevailing winds would have carried most of the fallout east of the test sites ...

 

Yep. 

[bersaguy]

I don't know but I thought the tests they did on the two Japanese cities to end WWII pretty much proved they worked. Why all of the testing is beyond my imagination. Seems like once they knew they worked and worked well that should have been enough. I guess they figured they had money to burn so blow something up...................jmho     It does kind of explain why California has about 500+ fault lines in the state along with a few other states out there. I wonder if they ever gave any consideration that they could have set off that earth destroying hot bed in Yellow Stone and sped up the end of time. I was watching a program about earthquakes the other night. The expert was asked by the interviewer where the worse most dangerous Volcano is located and his reply was Yellow Stone National Park and it is ever pops it's cork it will most likely be the end of the earth.  And our government is popping nukes off under the ground in Nevada??????????

[TrickyNicky]

'Merica. :USA:

[monkeylizard]

I don't know but I thought the tests they did on the two Japanese cities to end WWII pretty much proved they worked. Why all of the testing is beyond my imagination.

 

The tests weren't to see if a nuke could level a city. We figured that out from Trinity Site and proved it with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Additional tests were to test alternate bomb structures, sizes, yields, effectiveness of structures/ships/vehicles to withstand nuclear blasts at various distances, and to develop nuclear warfare tactics. Those are in addition to the experimental physics studies that were done at the same time or on other test blasts. I doubt we needed over 1,000 nuke tests to figure all of that out, but those were some of the reasons.

[Guest Keal G Seo]

How is the southwest not a radioactive wasteland? MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) is a good defense, that is for sure.

[Guest TresOsos]

No wonder cancer rates have exploded.

[Monkeyman2500]

Well that is a bit disturbing.

[runco]

Very interesting.

[Guest Lowbuster]

It's probably why baldness is so common today. If those stats are real, it's a wonder the entire earth don't glow.

[Schadenfreude]

Look up Bikini Atol sometime - We moved the native population of a beautiful tropical island to a rocky lifeless Island so we could blast the hell out of paradise, meanwhile we still pay the up keep for all the people we displaced. Recently the radiation levels dropped enough that some of them could actually have a short walk around the place.

[Tedro2022]

And this is why they say that one day California will fall off into the ocean... Sent from my iPad using [URL=http://tapatalk.com/m?id=1]Tapatalk[/URL]