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This YouTube vid needs a post to itself:

Isao Hashimoto's Time-Lapse animation of nuclear explosions, 1945 - 1998.

aome asked me what LOMO was, and what I liked about it.

if0x
12 Dec 2011, 20:23
MUST WATCH: Nuclear Detonations, 1945 - 1998
I certainly remember hearing about some of those Greenpeace protests, but I'd been under the impression that testing was conducted relatively rarely... quite astonished just how much was going on,…
if0x
12 Dec 2011, 20:22
MUST WATCH: Nuclear Detonations, 1945 - 1998
When you see how the count ramps up in the 50s, compared to the 40s, you can start to see how tensions built up so massively in the Cold War, I guess.
if0x
12 Dec 2011, 20:21
MUST WATCH: Nuclear Detonations, 1945 - 1998
I had no idea that there'd been 2,000+ nuclear tests either. As you say, terrifying...
if0x
12 Dec 2011, 20:21
MUST WATCH: Nuclear Detonations, 1945 - 1998
With the exception of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, these are all 'test' explosions, I believe. It's still quite staggering - I had no idea that so many 'tests' had been conducted... nor that quite so many…
cynthia_black
11 Dec 2011, 19:38
MUST WATCH: Nuclear Detonations, 1945 - 1998
I remember seeing all the Greenpeace protests about the tests in the Pacific back in the 70's and 80's - I didn't realise there had been so many of them though.