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All 2,053 nuclear explosions from 1945-1998.

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#1  Edited By Matterless

Maybe I'm the only person who thinks this is an interesting way to present data, but here goes.  This video depicts every nuclear explosion recorded between 1945-1998. Where it happened, when it happened, and who set it off. It naturally starts off pretty slowly, and there are lulls--uneventful months are marked by a metronomic beep. Be patient or fast forward if you want (shit *really* starts going down in 1955). There's a recap at the end.
 
  
      
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#2  Edited By Video_Game_King

This would probably make a cool music video.

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#3  Edited By DaManGB

And people wonder why the environment is fucked up. dayum california blew up like 100 times.

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#4  Edited By Matterless
@Video_Game_King said:
"This would probably make a cool music video. "

It's like the ending of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the ending of WarGames had a baby.
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#5  Edited By jasondaplock

That is a pretty bitchin' video.

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#6  Edited By Aetos

That was a very interesting video.

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#7  Edited By Gav47

Wow, at least France as kind enough to carry their tests out at sea. Also there had been 1987 nuclear explosions before I even graced planet earth with my presence. 

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#8  Edited By hockeymask27

Wow you would think the U.S west coast would be a giant microwave by now.

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#9  Edited By ArchScabby

Australia is definitely lacking in the nuclear explosion territory.  We should all work to rectify that.

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#10  Edited By Six

so, what is with the color coding of the blips? 

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#11  Edited By CowMuffins
@Six said:
" so, what is with the color coding of the blips?  "
Just makes the epilepsy more colorful.
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#12  Edited By secretagent099
@Six said:
" so, what is with the color coding of the blips?  "
It represents different countries I think.
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#13  Edited By TheFreeMan

Man, I dunno what year it was exactly (think it might've been '66), but damn, I'm surprised that generation of individuals from that area of America weren't all mutants or something.

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#14  Edited By recroulette

Interesting vid, crazy stuff there.

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#15  Edited By FunExplosions

Wow. That's some extremely dark and depressing video-game-inspired satire.
 
On the bright side... GO U.S!!!!!
 
And the ending can be interpreted as a metaphor for some kind of nuclear sexual climax. Obviously, America gets the biggest load. Well, maybe I just watch too much porn...

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#16  Edited By Ferginator4k

Anyone up for some Defcon?

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#17  Edited By jakob187
@Six said:
" so, what is with the color coding of the blips?  "
Each one is a separate country.  Blue is America, red is Russia, pink is Britain, etc etc etc. 
 
Also, interesting video.
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#18  Edited By Cybexx

Wow that is a fascinating but terrifying video 

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#19  Edited By Rockanomics

You watch that and you'd think the universe of Fallout is not only real but would be old news by now.

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#20  Edited By AgentJ
@TheFreeMan said:
" Man, I dunno what year it was exactly (think it might've been '66), but damn, I'm surprised that generation of individuals from that area of America weren't all mutants or something. "
They were all done in one very isolated area in New Mexico, which is pretty much all desert. 
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#21  Edited By TheFreeMan
@AgentJ:  Figured as much.
 
It was interesting to see Britain use the test sites in America a few times, though (I am colour blind, however, so, uh, maybe they didn't. Cough). I wonder why they didn't just use the ocean every time?
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#22  Edited By DanielJW

Poor California. Cool video. Definitely a cooler way to numbers out there than a chart or graph is. 
 
Though graphs can be pretty rad. 

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#23  Edited By Brunchies

California and New Mexico, how you both are the worst treated states. 

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#24  Edited By AgentJ
@Brunchies said:
" California and New Mexico, how you both are the worst treated states.  "
I'm just surprised they nuked perfectly good desert instead of states like Oklahoma.
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#25  Edited By Hyuzen

Funny how britain used one of their colonies for most of their nuclear bomb testing. so sorry australia 
 
but seriously that is a very sobering video

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#26  Edited By Six
@jakob187:@secretagent099:@CowMuffins:   I think what threw me off was the British? blips in America.
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#27  Edited By meteora

California should be a freaking nuclear wasteland... good thing a few of them were blasted underground. 
 
Wasn't it confirmed that we can nuke our world literally 12 times over or more with our current nuclear arsenal?

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#28  Edited By Heylook

GO CANADA

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#29  Edited By matthew
@DaManGB said:
" dayum california blew up like 100 times. "
@Hockeymask27 said:
" Wow you would think the U.S west coast would be a giant microwave by now. "
It's basically all deserts in Arizona and Nevada.  My dad was actually stationed at the test site in NV (area 12 or something like that) in the early 90s.  Kinda around 90 or so minutes north of Vegas.
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#30  Edited By DaManGB
@Matthew said:
" @DaManGB said:
" dayum california blew up like 100 times. "
@Hockeymask27 said:
" Wow you would think the U.S west coast would be a giant microwave by now. "
It's basically all deserts in Arizona and Nevada.  My dad was actually stationed at the test site in NV (area 12 or something like that) in the early 90s.  Kinda around 90 or so minutes north of Vegas. "
I wouldn't want to be there you'll grow another arm or something 0.o
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#31  Edited By matthew
@DaManGB: Nah, it's closed off now I think.  Even when he was working there, everything was underground and inside some type of tunnel me thinks.  The testing was only really done for scientific purposes, to see how certain materials/chemicals/whathaveyou hold up to a split second of being irradiated, all through the smallest of pinholes.   
 
But the resulting pictures are pretty nifty -   
 
 
  
  
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#32  Edited By DaManGB
@Matthew:  It's like to movie holes >.<
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#33  Edited By TwoOneFive

Boom goes the dynomite.  
 
 
saw this a few days ago, was thoroughly blown away. i had no clue this many have been used. i was thinking double digits but holy shit, its in the thousands. im surprised we arent dead from nuclear radiation wtf. 

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#34  Edited By damodar

I think Russia and the US were trying to ensure world peace by blowing up all the uranium.

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#35  Edited By s7evn

It's like watching DEFCON, except with sound. It's amazing that they actually fired so many nukes, even in the 90's after the cold war.

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#36  Edited By Patman99

If you slow it down, it makes out a Morse code message that says: "go buy big macs."  

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#37  Edited By Kontrapunkt

You would think a country wouldn't need 1000+ tests.

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#38  Edited By Waffles13

So it seems like the Ruskies knew how to spread their bombs out a bit; how the hell is the Mojave not just a smoldering crater leading down into the center of the Earth?
 
Also, but the hell are the French doing in '95? "I HATE ZE OCEAN!"

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#39  Edited By armaan8014
@Rockanomics said:
" You watch that and you'd think the universe of Fallout is not only real but would be old news by now. "
lol
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#40  Edited By SSully

Makes me want to play defcon.  
 
But seriously that is pretty horrible, the us and russia really over did their testing. You think after the 200th detonation they would call it quits. 

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#41  Edited By Nephrahim

 I tried to make it all the way through.  I really did.  
 
Anyway, not all of these nukes were huge, city destroying ones.  And there are reasons to test things out like this. 

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#42  Edited By zanzibarbreeze

That's an interesting video.

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#43  Edited By fattony12000

And if you wanna learn more about hilarious thermonuclear weaponry, check out my wiki page! 
 
There's nothing to fear except the complete annihilation of the human race!

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#44  Edited By foggel

Remind me to never go to California.