"1945-1998" by ISAO HASHIMOTO

Isao Hashimoto: "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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Profile of the artist: Isao HASHIMOTO
Born in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan in 1959.
Worked for 17 years in financial industry as a foreign exchange dealer. Studied at Department of Arts, Policy and Management of Musashino Art University, Tokyo.
Currently working for Lalique Museum, Hakone, Japan as a curator.
Created artwork series expressing, in the artist's view, "the fear and the folly of nuclear weapons":
"1945-1998" © 2003
"Overkilled"
"The Names of Experiments"
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* The number excludes the announced nuclear tests by North Korea.

[@sanguinestallion]

A STRANGE GAME. THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY.

[@DaveAcker]

This was beautiful and yet unnerving. It is a great way to express the cold data to strike an emotional chord. Well done.

[@emilialaramironica5234]

What is really sad is the fact that 80% of humankind has no clue about it!

[@stephenfischer5688]

Insane.

[@TheNotoriousYJX]

So when does the dubstep remix come out?

[@Maripooh13]

I think it is quite evident in which decade they decided that should stop.

[@TimothyAMartin]

You can read reports about the fallout and consequences for the United States mid-west, and the large payouts the U.S. government paid in compensation (and is still paying out). Fallout has a very long life, so many generations from areas of testing will be contaminated into the next several centuries at least. There are many international reports on these available to confirm this.

[@zdubduke]

Brilliant. And frightening.

[@TheTechAdmin]

13:03 Lol looks like they were trying to warm up their country. The markers are evenly placed ( evenly for them ).

[@Akustikaufruhr]

3:05 - The 2nd of the both in Bikini atoll was the Fukuryu-maru incident...

[@swiebm2011]

What are the white spots at 13:50 ?

[@dianadidulica30]

There's Israel missing.

[@markdouglas4465]

Did they create an unlucky dip out of food and water by blowing radioactive particles into the atmosphere?

[@RandalWithOneL]

"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?" --Joshua, "WarGames" (1983)

[@puncheex2]

Look around you. What can you say about your environment that is relevant?

[@ratking69]

what about the green dot in the midst of nowhere of southern pacific ocean? who is responsible for this?

[@BORRACHOAZUL]

THEY ARE THE REALLY TORRORIST

[@santafe9603]

we'll be died by the same human

[@plateshutoverlock]

This is an indication of just how much evil there is in this world :\

[@user-bn6yu2cx8k]

1991 - 1998 Russia - no one explosion...

[@drewlee2094]

Makes me think of Simon Says, but it would make for one boring ass game.

[@lucmedina]

¿Danger to living beings? Danger of death, of course: that's what weapons are made for, aren't they?

[@dadieer]

La bêtise de l'homme dans toute sa splendeur !

[@Cellonote]

grausig

[@matthiasd5630]

gg france we arrived third that was a nice gaaame ! human is a child

[@Bocha666]

un 1989, 1989 bombs

[@jamesprofitt9520]

Ha over a thousand nukes and none of you came close I am proud of my country