Reminds me of "Rise Of The HFT Machine":
A Deeply Unsettling Time Lapse Of Every Nuclear Explosion On Earth
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#12The vast majority of these detonations occurred after the US, UK and USSR signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty in 1963, which permitted only underground detonations. Ideally, underground detonations don't release radioactive material into the wider environment, but there were of course failures to contain along the way.
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#13Why am i not suprised america has the most explosions, and still they try to ban other countries from producing nuclear fuel. The future generations will probably like the fallout on us soil. Congrats, this is a wondefull vid.
It's been 50 years since the US did a non-underground test. What do you think we use all these supercomputers for? Nuclear testing.
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#14I, for one, am not deeply unsettled by nuclear weapons. As weapons of peace, they have made war a strongly negative sum game between advanced nations. The only way to win is not to play. The drawback of nuclear weapons isn't the actual threat or consequences of war, but using the nature of the game by a government to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt amongst its own people to consolidate power. That, in itself, is…
In addition, a lot of people have completely warped, fantastical and exaggerated perceptions of how powerful nuclear weapons are.
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#15The brits tested a bomb on U.S. soil?
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#16I, for one, am not deeply unsettled by nuclear weapons. As weapons of peace, they have made war a strongly negative sum game between advanced nations. The only way to win is not to play. The drawback of nuclear weapons isn't the actual threat or consequences of war, but using the nature of the game by a government to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt amongst its own people to consolidate power. That, in itself, is…
In addition, a lot of people have completely warped, fantastical and exaggerated perceptions of how powerful nuclear weapons are.
Would you mind expanding on that? What exaggerated perceptions do a lot of people have and in what way do they not match reality?
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#17I, for one, am not deeply unsettled by nuclear weapons. As weapons of peace, they have made war a strongly negative sum game between advanced nations. The only way to win is not to play. The drawback of nuclear weapons isn't the actual threat or consequences of war, but using the nature of the game by a government to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt amongst its own people to consolidate power. That, in itself, is…
In addition, a lot of people have completely warped, fantastical and exaggerated perceptions of how powerful nuclear weapons are.
Drop 60 kg of knives on a city then see how many people you kill versus dropping 60 kg of uranium with technology surrounding it.
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#18The brits tested a bomb on U.S. soil?
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#19Deeply unsettling? Because they did 2k tests over a period of half a century?
I think it is difficult for most people to conceptualize how short a time period that is since they haven't even lived that long.
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#20Previously on HN... Nuclear Explosions since 1942 (map) (datavis.tumblr.com) 3 points by transburgh 4 years ago | 1 comments | cached Animated History of Nuclear Explosions (ctbto.org) 2 points by brianmckenzie 3 years ago | 0 comments | cached Animated map of nuclear explosions, 1945-1998 (pinktentacle.com) 58 points by gnosis 3 years ago | 26 comments | cached
If you want to contribute to the thread, link to the comments on the previous posts. Otherwise, the fact that this has been posted before (apparently 3 years ago..) doesn't make it less interesting now.
> Animated map of nuclear explosions, 1945-1998 (pinktentacle.com) 58 points by gnosis 3 years ago | 26 comments | cached