Mainstream media is never far away from the subject of nuclear. With an ever expanding need for energy its without doubt a technology that can provide an immense amount of our energy needs. Although for some of us there are worrying questions about the safety of creating energy from nuclear power. With events such as the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 and the more recent Fukushima disaster in Japan, a huge shadow of doubt casts over the nuclear energy industry.
Nuclear technology is not only useful it can also be truly destructive. Its a power which in the wrong hands can have devastating consequences for the whole world. In 1939 the USA began a research and development program called the 'Manhattan Project'. Led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada the Manhattan Project produced the worlds first atomic bomb. Since then there have been over 2000 nuclear explosions on earth. With countries such as Iran racing to join the expanding club of nuclear enabled nations - will nuclear weapons be the next cause of mass extinction on our planet?
Bellow is a visual representation created by the Japanese artist, Isao Hashimoto. The 14 minute clip shows all know nuclear explosions between 1945 and 1998. It starts off slow but soon becomes overwhelming, a rather shocking wake up call to which we should all pay heed!
About "1945-1998" ©2003SOURCE
"This piece of work is a bird's eye view of the history by scaling down a month length of time into one second. No letter is used for equal messaging to all viewers without language barrier. The blinking light, sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country have conducted. I created this work for the means of an interface to the people who are yet to know of the extremely grave, but present problem of the world."
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