2053 (+2 or 3)

it's a little slow to get going, but i find the above animation, showing every nuclear explosion on earth from 1945 to 1998, to be pretty fascinating. (the video doesn't include vela incident, a possible nuclear test conducted jointly by israel and south africa, nor does it have the two alleged north korean nuclear test from 2006 and 2009).

it really is amazing just how many times the earth has been nuked. i'm also struck both by the range of places where there have been nuclear explosions (on every continent except south american and antarctica), and also how certain spots (nevada, semey, kazakhstan, and the south pacific) got nuked a whole lot.

some info about the video is here.

(via blood and treasure)