"1945-1998" by Isao
Hashimoto (Japan, © 2003)
An animated history of nuclear testing in which each month is a second. (When you get to 1985, notice the Soviet test moratorum imposed by Mikhail Gorbachev. It goes by quickly; the moratorim ended in February, 1987.) The creator, Isao Hashimoto, has said:
"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."
More about the artist is here. And more about the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty is here. Hard to believe that the United States signed it in 1996 but has yet to ratify.
On nuclear testing, we've been there, done that.
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