Sam3o on 24 August 2012
Not sure if this was posted before, but I found this interesting video showing a time lapse on a map of all of the 2053 nuclear tests conducted in the world up to 1998 by the US, Russia (formaly USSR), UK, France, China, India, and Pakistan. The first three shown are the Trinity test in New Mexico, and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagazaki in Japan during 1945. Things become chaotic from the mid 1950s onward. For the summary, skip to about 6:00.
Some interesting things:
- The US holds the record of most conducted nuclear tests (1032 more than all other countries combined) most of which was in Nevada.
- Niether the UK nor France conducted any nuclear tests on their mainland. Australia and even the US were used by the UK, while Algeria was used by France as nuclear test sites.
- China, India, and Pakistan were the only countries to not have their tests performed outside their respective mainland borders. All others have done them in the ocean, remote islands, or even in other countries.
- Despite India performing its first test in 1974, it took its neighbor and enemy Pakistan more than twenty years to conduct its first test in 1998.
- The only populated continent that is "Nuclear Free" is South America.
