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.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U8CZAKSsNA

The UK and France don't have any mainland remote enough, of course they can't test here.

Interesting vid though, didn't realise there had been so many tests.

I was gust simply stating the fact that the UK and France, the only two that didn't conduct tests within their mainlands, were also the only ones that had tests performed in other countries (Australia, US, Algeria). All the others detonated nukes either within their boundaries or in the middle of the ocean.

I was surprised at how high the French numbers were

You figure we're up to 2055 now, right? Total ban on nuclear testing, but two shots from North Korea.

Yup! We would be 2055 total with the two North Korean tests in 2006 and 2009. Regarding the French, yeah their numbers are quite surprising especially when compared to the UK. Despite starting testing 8 years after the UK, they were able to pull more than 4 times the number of nuclear tests.

Then again, if you look at the the more "civilized" side of nuclear energy, you will see that France is very dependent on nuclear energy. If I'm not mistaken, they generate 75% of their electricity from nuclear power plants.

Interesting video... didn't realize India had a test so early on. Thought they and Pakistan started at same time.