Map of Nuclear Explosions on the Earth from 1945-1998

[@Qyburnator]

Really cool video. I never imagined there was so much testing. Its kind of ironic that the only 2 "for real" explosions came as #2 and #3, yet theres been tonnes of (so far) unneccesary tests since then.

[@D1sc0rd-]

It’s the MAD doctrine, Mutually Assured Destruction

[@tomjay89]

i love how it calms down at the end and then another county pops up and fires a couple of just to take part :')

[@Nubyrc]

Wow we sure have made a mess of ourselves

[@noxure]

@jonragnarsson Good point. They conducted 3 in a joint operation with South Africa (even South Africa had a few nukes once), and at least one on their own. The reason they're not included is that even today they are still classified.

[@AndreasHvilhoej]

0:50 at 2x speed is darude sandstorm wtf

[@windowsvistasuxalot]

Seems like it really slowed down after Superman IV. Great job getting them to cut back - and we are sorry tiny Islands in the Pacific - you too Nevada.

[@breedlove94]

@Wavanova its amazing that in the Fallout videogame universe, Las Vegas is one of the few non contaminated regions

[@TarlanT]

Clearly shows how increased processing power of computers that allowed nuke explosion modeling, led to reduction of bomb testing.

[@horvatkevin]

Hey very nice Video From where ist the Map? Is this a software?

[@LightandDark11]

So this thing makes no difference between yield of the explosions or whether the explosion was high altitude, above ground, or underground. So glad this is a unbiased source! /sarcasm

[@chemnuke]

This is an awesome video.

[@TheKlaustro]

Umm, i think you zoomed out the world map a bit wrong... since greenwich should be in the center =0

[@IloveyouLenaKatina]

@TerrariaLP2 What kind of emergency calls for the use of nukes?! I can't think of any situation that is "improved" by this "method."

[@CapitanJefe]

Why was on suggestions of the eHarmony Video Bio?

[@AntiBandHQ]

wait a second.....this is the place from where are thrown the nuclears or where they hit ?

[@elisadiasyt]

Falando sério, agora. E dizem que o Brasil não é um país sério, gente. Não dá pra acreditar no que se lê aqui. Fico feliz por ter sido um deles que escreveuestas coisas.

[@DIEaHEROdotNET]

very cool, which program did you use to do that

[@irbk500]

@CarinaSuda its how many explosions were made either by sending a nuclear bomo or either by nuclear missile testing or either explosions made by having mistakes in nuclear plants

[@indioside376]

Putting nuclear power mishaps into perspective.

[@0darksome0]

@Shadowgirl669 err.... ever heard of this era called "cold war" ?

[@thatguyb3rt]

@01FNG guess.. >.< why do you think earth has all these medical conditions and shit that hasnt started getting really bad untill the last 50 years or so

[@nicko198718]

umm that flag of britain and the bomb was dropped in Australia can i have your source on that please

[@Tigerpaws9097826]

@formerutuber I don't think it's clear from this map, but most of the nuclear explosions in the American Southwest were probably tests performed in Nevada. California is too populated, while Nevada has large expanses of desert. The point still remains - too darned many nuclear explosions.

[@kelly0398]

@TheZachman1995 Ivory coast?

[@Pakkaspyry]

Nuke tests in the atmosphere werediscontinued around 1963. Hand counted from the ctbto map results in about 2700 tests. Here seems to be only 1/3. Wassup?

[@tybo09]

@nicpendergast As for the fuel rods, there are techniques that can be used to reprocess the waste and reactors that can use "spent" fuel rods as fuel. France generates almost all of their electricity with nuclear power. Maybe we should look to them and see what they're doing (I know they use a fraction of the electricity the US uses, but it might be worth looking at).

[@painter6688]

How is califonia and Mexico still on the map after that?

[@01FNG]

were does all the radiation go ?

[@may21judgmentday]

How can this be happening?

[@LuxorCZ]

@GraveDiggerIII I belive this is about testing and war explosions ( Which are just two of them ). and that rest 2051 were just tests.

[@TheSaiyanKing]

@formless777 these are nuclear BOMBS, not simple/accidental explosions.

[@AntiguoEspectro]

Did the nuclear explosions in the pacific damage the sea ecosystem?

[@cherbonneau69]

what does this have to do with the eharmony bio video

[@grnthmb]

@nocandy4u2 Wind can carry some radiation to nearby towns, where 10 yrs later they usually have higher instances of thyroid problems and cancers. Also radiation particles get spread all over the world by trade winds, but apparently those aren't as harmful.

[@Lorrainish]

This is horrible! I wasn't aware that there were so many tests. And nowadays you should add more countries to the list... It's just insane.

[@RicardoMarlowFlamenco]

What happened to North Korea 2009

[@Doskey]

everyone stopped going insane with the nukes right before my birth year (1994)

[@moshco23]

@halflifes00 When have we ever used our Nuclear arsenal????

[@TheCounter005]

@Wavanova We need to start using southern Arizona.

[@Hybridsixtynine]

I wonder what the counter was if the vid was about nuclear explosions during the last decade. Perhaps ten times as much?

[@CarinaSuda]

when saying Nuclear explosion what is ment exactly?

[@TheSonOfDumb]

@htko89 Why the hell would they set off a hell of a lot of nukes in their own states? Inb4 "THEY HAS TO TEST TEH WEPONZ". Far too many explosions.

[@puncheex2]

GB last fired a test in 1990 and was preparing another at the US NTS in Nevada when the Comprehensive Test Ban was put in place, scrubbing that test. The UK performed 24 tests at the NTS all through the 60s, 70s and the 80s. France and China continued into 1995. India and Pakistan tested in 1999. Now, South Africa, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and a number of other civilized countries gave up their nuclear ambitions without testing; perhaps that's who you mean?

[@scythelord]

@RusNad the bomb range isn't smoking, but it is definitely filled with craters. Go look at google earth and see for yourself.

[@superrobotfan1099]

enough all ready and how many on space?

[@Hairysteed]

@jonragnarsson Where and when?

[@TheLouisianan]

The testing in the United States was all done in Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah mainly. It's just desert with some small towns here and there. The video did make it look like they were tested in Los Angles though. and the way the wind works here is all that fallout just goes East so the West coast is actually better off than the rest of the US. Midwest got it the worst, but no one really sees higher death rates there compared to everyone else

[@IloveyouLenaKatina]

@leonia97 Well, yes. But my point is, even when you test them, you are still sending huge amounts of radiation into the air which ends up in the ground water and then the plants...and humans drink water and eat plants. It isn't like there is a way of containing the radiation just because it is a "test."

[@2153515]

scientist-we gathered all the data we need, we dont need to run more tests President-drop more bombs scientist-why? president- cuz..... they look cool

[@Malgnir]

Though i don't like seeing how we used nukes the most but at least i learn that we tested them alot. :(

[@howtofindaflashlight]

@hfcollins I am no physicist but from what I've read nuclear fallout last (in some instances) last years after the original blast. This stuff gets in our food and can cause cancer and other illnesses.

[@RayKalm]

@SturmKorps what about it?

[@TheMitsuhideAkechi]

Its funny how during the start of the cold war, nuke explosions go nuts.

[@IloveyouLenaKatina]

@scythelord even the desert has an underground aquifer somewhere...and all water goes to the sea...

[@triflind]

can you see the communication?

[@KALASNICHOW]

they still testing bacause is interesant to see the radiation efects on things and how to protect from the Nukes

[@TedIzNinja]

@RaamAnkka But what if some country DOES attack your country with nukes. The end.

[@TheNoNameUsername]

i like how cats is the main topic in the comments when the video is about nuclear explosions.

[@TheZachman1995]

who is the green white and orange flag

[@Messmaster08]

@imagicination america isnt crazy about using our taxes for nuclear power but when u look at some other countries like north korea thats where all their taxes go to

[@ultimatepie27]

these were all tests right

[@MjSirius]

@Chazotek wins what exactly ?

[@OKMX5]

Omg this is insane I thought there were like fifty nuclear bomb explosions in history :D

[@Increderiffic]

@ultimatepie27 Those two explosions in Japan weren't.

[@ih8makinusernames]

@GraveDiggerIII It wasn't a nuclear explosion. A meltdown is completely different from an explosion.

[@toby1248]

what do you think it was going to be? the cold war was cold after all

[@winndypops]

This may make me sound stupid but what is the last country? The one with the islamic moon and star on their flag?

[@GrovyleXShinyCelebi]

Looks like the targeting system of an orbital laser.

[@manicbabyshambles123]

@BonJoviSuperFan2 What the hell are you talking about?

[@Legomakerx]

did the nuke at 1:01 killed anyone?

[@jimmy2k4o]

does this remind anyone of close encounters of the 3rd kind?

[@MeqaAdeliuz]

Where was the Zar-Bomb?

[@stenmgandersen]

what about north korea, havent they also tried nuclear bombs?

[@stevenkyleishee]

Since 1998 they have. Mississippi, has more military technology and knowledge, than North Korea. They're a joke.

[@leolego88]

@phantomscolts2 why the hell is your comment is flagged as spam?

[@IloveyouLenaKatina]

@natesrepublic a restaurant that serves radioactive seafood? Or maybe lots of Blinky's (Simpsons). But seriously, they weren't bombing fish, there is an island chain there: Bikini Atoll. And if you look at Google...talk about craters. :/

[@eaglesfan19029]

makes us realize how paranoid we really were. over a thounsand nukes? man, i will never go to the southwest after seeing this.

[@tikkj]

I love how the UK just kept nuking Australia.

[@Stingyray1]

You'd think after the first ten they'd realize "OH! Guys these are destructive."

[@sithalo]

its kinda like a map of 2053 places not to go lol. except its mroe or less safe to some places on the map now lol

[@JackBacket]

NExt I want to see: Map of Nuclear Explosions on the Moon from 1945-1998

[@TheCounter005]

@emofelix23 Testing is done for lots of reasons. Does it work? How well does it work? Are our calculations correct? Wow, this one is old. Does it still work? etc., etc., etc.

[@Procharmo]

Gallagher, for instance, talks about her quiet dread of going into the local K-Mart and "seeing four- and five-year-old children wearing wigs, deathly pale and obviously in chemotherapy."

[@arashjapan]

And now what do you think would be the result of those tests! Calculated disasters...!

[@ANTICARBONTAX]

@puncheex Well I disagree because The physicist Albert Einstein did not directly participate in the invention of the atomic bomb. But he was instrumental in facilitating its development. In 1905, as part of his Special Theory of Relativity, he made the intriguing point that a large amount of energy could be released from a small amount of matter. This was expressed by the equation E=mc2 (energy = mass times the speed of light squared). The atomic bomb would clearly illustrate this principle.

[@Timberhawk]

Southern Nevada seems like a popular target. It appears the US even like the UK get in some shots there.

[@DragmodNotloc]

so, umm...like...shouldn't we be in some sort of nuclear winter after all of that?

[@frontiergame]

Wow, more than 2000 nukes detonated and the earth is alive, wow

[@scythelord]

@Dekulink333 the vast majority of all the tests the US did were buried deep underground in the desert. Safest place really.

[@Stupidnamestealers]

@ElDuorPaso I'd say: waist of energy... That's a lot of it.

[@rjhinnj]

@formless777 ... they'll never learn.... they live in a misty world of good intentions and rainbows and butterflies. Great post formless.

[@ArthurNeumannArthur]

This is how aliens must feel watching from above.

[@naes686]

where was chernobol

[@lSeKToRl]

@chemtrooper that's where it is tested

[@kelly0398]

Ivory Coast?

[@TropicalCycloneDataNetwork]

@AgentXRifle I'm sorry but I think that's Nevada. ;)

[@2242bzo]

Very cool!

[@tvsteve]

You mean the UK?

[@toThe9thPower]

@formless777 And what do those prison guards represent? POWER

[@billionmilejourney]

I wonder how many islands and fishes were destroyed in the pacific

[@butheadjoe]

Sources?