Comments on: Animated map of nuclear explosions, 1945-1998 http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 15:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Dawn deMom http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-852993 Dawn deMom Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-852993 Sobering. I honestly did not know the US did so many nuclear tests. Still shaking my head... Sobering. I honestly did not know the US did so many nuclear tests.

Still shaking my head…

]]> By: S2 http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853004 S2 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853004 At first I thought: slow! But by the mid-'50s I understood the pacing. Love the soundtrack...he even cared enough to give it a stereo mix. A quibble -- I know for sure he missed at least one explosion. I can clearly recall that in early June, 1963, Michigan USA an A-Bomb went off in my pants, with all the world-changing effects you'd expect.... At first I thought: slow! But by the mid-’50s I understood the pacing. Love the soundtrack…he even cared enough to give it a stereo mix. A quibble — I know for sure he missed at least one explosion. I can clearly recall that in early June, 1963, Michigan USA an A-Bomb went off in my pants, with all the world-changing effects you’d expect….

]]> By: Lobster http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853008 Lobster Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853008 A bit too slow for me. They don't need to wait 5-10 seconds between doing anything. A bit too slow for me. They don’t need to wait 5-10 seconds between doing anything.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853777 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853777 "And I guess the North Korean tests were subcritical so they don't count?" 1945-1998 dude, I don't think the North Koreans detonated anything in that time-frame. “And I guess the North Korean tests were subcritical so they don’t count?”

1945-1998 dude, I don’t think the North Koreans detonated anything in that time-frame.

]]> By: Atomboy http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853522 Atomboy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853522 Fallout from the Nevada testing site extended to the East Coast and beyond. One test ruined an entire production run of Kodak film in Rochester,NY. Radiation detectors in Oak Ridge,TN, the Atomic City, were set off by fallout from Nevada. To be really scared read "American Ground Zero" by Carole Gallagher. People immediately downwind in Nevada were described as "...a low-use segment of the population..." To be properly horrified read "The Plutonium Files" by Eileen Welsome and "The Treatment" by Martha Stephens. Or ask me. My father worked at K25, Y12, and Oak Ridge National Lab. When he died in 1993 there was cancer in his lungs, his brain, and his colon. Work records(urine tests)showed he was putting out uranium, fluorine and mercury. Oak Ridge lost 450,000 lbs. of mercury producing lithium deuteride for thermonuclear bombs, enveloped the city in a cloud of radioactive iodine, and while K25 was active(40 years)kept the city soaked in uranium dust and fluorine. Fallout from the Nevada testing site extended to the East Coast and beyond. One test ruined an entire production run of Kodak film in Rochester,NY. Radiation detectors in Oak Ridge,TN, the Atomic City, were set off by fallout from Nevada. To be really scared read “American Ground Zero” by Carole Gallagher. People immediately downwind in Nevada were described as “…a low-use segment of the population…” To be properly horrified read “The Plutonium Files” by Eileen Welsome and “The Treatment” by Martha Stephens. Or ask me. My father worked at K25, Y12, and Oak Ridge National Lab. When he died in 1993 there was cancer in his lungs, his brain, and his colon. Work records(urine tests)showed he was putting out uranium, fluorine and mercury. Oak Ridge lost 450,000 lbs. of mercury producing lithium deuteride for thermonuclear bombs, enveloped the city in a cloud of radioactive iodine, and while K25 was active(40 years)kept the city soaked in uranium dust and fluorine.

]]> By: Trent Hawkins http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853018 Trent Hawkins Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853018 Oh... I was waiting looking forward to Chernobyl :-( Oh… I was waiting looking forward to Chernobyl :-(

]]> By: imag http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853787 imag Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853787 Me either. I can't even fathom what they we *testing* with all those. And did really need to set off multiple bombs per month? It seems like one couldn't even set up test procedures and analyze the data that fast. This is mind blowing to me. Me either. I can’t even fathom what they we *testing* with all those.

And did really need to set off multiple bombs per month? It seems like one couldn’t even set up test procedures and analyze the data that fast.

This is mind blowing to me.

]]> By: Lexicat http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853025 Lexicat Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853025 this is beautiful, important mesmerizing. hiroshima day always gets me in the heart--the first person conversation with a survivor when i was 15 has had a life-long impact. i note that he vela blast produced by israel and south africa is missing. it would also be nice to see this updated to the oughts so that north korea is in the mix. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Vela_Incident this is beautiful, important mesmerizing. hiroshima day always gets me in the heart–the first person conversation with a survivor when i was 15 has had a life-long impact. i note that he vela blast produced by israel and south africa is missing. it would also be nice to see this updated to the oughts so that north korea is in the mix.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Vela_Incident

]]> By: Jeffrey H http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853038 Jeffrey H Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853038 Hey I posted this to the Submitterator a week or so ago. No credit? I see why people want to blow things up - just kidding. Imagine a Slim Pickens on each one of those bombs. Hey I posted this to the Submitterator a week or so ago. No credit? I see why people want to blow things up – just kidding.

Imagine a Slim Pickens on each one of those bombs.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853044 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853044 No wonder Nevada has the highest rate of childhood cancer in the US. random addition: the first word in the recaptcha for this post is in Japanese. No wonder Nevada has the highest rate of childhood cancer in the US.

random addition: the first word in the recaptcha for this post is in Japanese.

]]> By: Oskar http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853045 Oskar Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853045 It's really interesting to see how much it slowed down after the START treaty came into effect in 1994. It just stops. After that, it's only India, Pakistan and France (we boycotted the shit of those frogs after that happened) that still do tests. Credit where credit is due: good work presidents Reagan, Gorbachev, Bush I and Clinton! That was a great accomplishment. It’s really interesting to see how much it slowed down after the START treaty came into effect in 1994. It just stops. After that, it’s only India, Pakistan and France (we boycotted the shit of those frogs after that happened) that still do tests. Credit where credit is due: good work presidents Reagan, Gorbachev, Bush I and Clinton! That was a great accomplishment.

]]> By: bobhughes http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853301 bobhughes Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853301 This is so cool, it's like what you would see in an old dusty computer bank if you explored a post-apocalyptic earth in a video game (or possibly RL) This is so cool, it’s like what you would see in an old dusty computer bank if you explored a post-apocalyptic earth in a video game (or possibly RL)

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853047 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853047 You're right...that WAS mesmerizing. I wasn't able to watch the whole thing yet...does it show the Israeli test off the coast of South Africa? You’re right…that WAS mesmerizing. I wasn’t able to watch the whole thing yet…does it show the Israeli test off the coast of South Africa?

]]> By: Irene Delse http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853559 Irene Delse Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853559 "The ones that really pissed us off down here, though, were the French. ... Bastards. They never promised to stop for good, either." Actually, yes, we did. France signed and ratified the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Nuclear-Test-Ban_Treaty">CNTBT</a>, which is one step further than the USA. “The ones that really pissed us off down here, though, were the French. … Bastards. They never promised to stop for good, either.”

Actually, yes, we did. France signed and ratified the CNTBT, which is one step further than the USA.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-863800 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-863800 What a bunch of A**HOLES destrying our world with their war mongering garbage What a bunch of A**HOLES destrying our world with their war mongering garbage

]]> By: Phikus http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853052 Phikus Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853052 Maybe fallout has been taken into account. _____ It's like a video game where everyone loses. Maybe fallout has been taken into account.

_____

It’s like a video game where everyone loses.

]]> By: BomberWaterfallSandwich http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853564 BomberWaterfallSandwich Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853564 Nevada Represent! But where were the Israeli shenanigens off South Africa? And I guess the North Korean tests were subcritical so they don't count? Keep in mind people, you can't model what you don't know. Nevada Represent!
But where were the Israeli shenanigens off South Africa? And I guess the North Korean tests were subcritical so they don’t count?

Keep in mind people, you can’t model what you don’t know.

]]> By: Sef http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853058 Sef Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853058 It's tragi-comic that America and Russia basically bombed themselves with nuclear weapons during the cold war. This video doesn't really make me want to visit Nevada for the next 704 million years. Nice one science. It’s tragi-comic that America and Russia basically bombed themselves with nuclear weapons during the cold war.

This video doesn’t really make me want to visit Nevada for the next 704 million years.

Nice one science.

]]> By: TNGMug http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853318 TNGMug Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853318 Pretty Sad. Interesting though: South america is the only inhabited continent to never have had a nuclear explosion. Pretty Sad.

Interesting though: South america is the only inhabited continent to never have had a nuclear explosion.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853833 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853833 Very good point. Very good point.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853836 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853836 I think its insane how we allowed anyone to use our planet for their tests. I think its insane how we allowed anyone to use our planet for their tests.

]]> By: Donald Petersen http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853839 Donald Petersen Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853839 From John Wayne's wikipedia entry: "Among the 220 or so cast and crew who filmed the 1956 film, The Conqueror, on location near St. George, Utah, ninety-one had come down with cancer, with an unheard of 41 percent morbidity rate, including stars Wayne, Susan Hayward, and Agnes Moorehead. The film was shot in Southwestern Utah, east of and generally downwind from where the U.S. Government had tested nuclear weapons in Southeastern Nevada, and many contend that radioactive fallout from these tests contaminated the film location and poisoned the film crew working there." From John Wayne’s wikipedia entry:

“Among the 220 or so cast and crew who filmed the 1956 film, The Conqueror, on location near St. George, Utah, ninety-one had come down with cancer, with an unheard of 41 percent morbidity rate, including stars Wayne, Susan Hayward, and Agnes Moorehead. The film was shot in Southwestern Utah, east of and generally downwind from where the U.S. Government had tested nuclear weapons in Southeastern Nevada, and many contend that radioactive fallout from these tests contaminated the film location and poisoned the film crew working there.”

]]> By: eap http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853588 eap Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853588 Not all the U.S. tests were in the sparsely populated West or Pacific There were two blasts in South Mississippi in the 1960's. You can see them on the map around the five minute mark. These underground tests made local creeks run black http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/articles/293/nuclear-blasts-in-mississippi Not all the U.S. tests were in the sparsely populated West or Pacific

There were two blasts in South Mississippi in the 1960′s. You can see them on the map around the five minute mark. These underground tests made local creeks run black

http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/articles/293/nuclear-blasts-in-mississippi

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853338 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853338 i have to agree with tngmug. this is depressing. .~. i have to agree with tngmug. this is depressing.

.~.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853087 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853087 Pop quiz. Do *you* know what the most bombed place on earth is? tick...tick...tick... BAAMP! It's right here in these united $tates -- in what is now called Arizona on Western Shoshone land. The u.$. gov't has exploded over 1000 nuclear weapons there. Pop quiz. Do *you* know what the most bombed place on earth is? tick…tick…tick… BAAMP!
It’s right here in these united $tates — in what is now called Arizona on Western Shoshone land. The u.$. gov’t has exploded over 1000 nuclear weapons there.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-854112 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-854112 I guess the first 1000 tests missed a few vital bits of information that required another 1000 tests. The US alone probably wasted close to a trillion dollars on all the tests and the effort to get them built. I guess the first 1000 tests missed a few vital bits of information that required another 1000 tests. The US alone probably wasted close to a trillion dollars on all the tests and the effort to get them built.

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853606 Antinous / Moderator Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853606 I saw <a href="http://www.philmproductions.com/documentary.html">Downwinders:The People of Parowan</a> at the short film festival here a couple of years ago. It was quite good, but pretty depressing. I saw Downwinders:The People of Parowan at the short film festival here a couple of years ago. It was quite good, but pretty depressing.

]]> By: Thorzdad http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853863 Thorzdad Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853863 If you'd like to read more about the nuke tests the US carried out, I suggest browsing <a href="http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/index.html"> Nuclear Weapon Archive.</a> If you’d like to read more about the nuke tests the US carried out, I suggest browsing Nuclear Weapon Archive.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853105 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853105 Remember, the only sure way to get rid of a bomb is to blow it up. Think of each explosion as incremental, but permanent, disarmament. Remember, the only sure way to get rid of a bomb is to blow it up. Think of each explosion as incremental, but permanent, disarmament.

]]> By: BitterEconomist http://boingboing.net/2010/08/05/animated-map-of-nucl.html#comment-853113 BitterEconomist Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853113 The fallout wouldn't extend that far. Take's a while to start up but once it does... god. The fallout wouldn’t extend that far.

Take’s a while to start up but once it does… god.

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