1945-1998

[Tom]

http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/

"2053" - This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe.*

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.

* The number excludes both tests by North Korea (October 2006 and May 2009).

[Darren Dirt]

1951-1953*, heck of a time to take deep breaths of fresh air...


Hey Mr. Analog you said that you visited Nagasaki and that it was never rebuilt. Was it "moved" to a new location, and you visited the old one? Cuz I just Googlemapped it by name:

http://g.co/maps/dd5rz






*make that 1951-1957 (while 1958 = "let's just stay indoors all year, and cross our fingers it doesn't accelerate into something worse...")(1959..1960 = "whew, glad that period of insanity has ended, sure was close to... [1961] @%&#! WE'RE ALL DOOMED!") (...1994 ah! Finally rationally wins out -- 11/1994 *aww, come on! so close to sanity!*) (1995/1996 wtf France? Okay we get it, you're cool and dangerous not at all surrender monkeys!)

Created artwork series expressing, in the artist's view, "the fear and the folly of nuclear weapons":

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."

sadly, thanks to North Korea, yes, "present" problem.

[Mr. Analog]

Yeah it was a peace memorial I think they had preserved a big area, mind you that was a while back now, I have no idea what it looks like today.

[Thorin]

It's all built up in Nagasaki now: http://g.co/maps/z3qjx

[Darren Dirt]

Mr. A, I presume that THIS is the area that is completely flattened (and left un-redeveloped) that you were talking about?

It's in Hiroshima...

http://g.co/maps/m3r6q

just a few hundred feet North of Ground Zero:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aioi_Bridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hiroshima_Damage_Map.gif

http://g.co/maps/7vrwe <-- Ground Zero = a tiny bit southeast of the Aioi Bridge (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_Peace_Memorial#Atomic_bombing )






in Nagasaki...

...I couldn't find any open space left undeveloped as a testimony of the devestating explosion, but there's a memorial with concentric rings:
http://g.co/maps/h6kuc

[Tom]

Yeah, as much as they'd like to respect the people who lost their lives at the time, they can't really afford to just abandon two entire cities to a memorial. Maybe a large chunk around the impacts. Huge shortage of land in japan

[Mr. Analog]

Yeah! That's the area I remember now!

[Darren Dirt]

Yeah! That's the area I remember now!

I presume you meantthat 2x1 block in Hiroshima with nothing but dead grass... surrounded by greenery and buildings ... kinda eerie doing a street view of it for sure. To me it's a pretty effective warning of nuclear danger, less detached than the parks with statues and signs (and concentric rings).

[Mr. Analog]

Yeah! That's the area I remember now!

I presume you meantthat 2x1 block in Hiroshima with nothing but dead grass... surrounded by greenery and buildings ... kinda eerie doing a street view of it for sure. To me it's a pretty effective warning of nuclear danger, less detached than the parks with statues and signs (and concentric rings).

It's eerily quiet yes

[Darren Dirt]

It's eerily quiet yes

on that note...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfJZ6nwxD38
"Barefoot Gen, Hiroshima Destroyed"

WARNING THE SCENES ARE GRAPHIC BUT HISTORICALLY ACCURATE. Written and lived by a survivor this movie is heartbreaking.
Category: Film & Animation
Tags: Anime Animation manga hiroshima barefoot gen

(helpful tip: ignore the comments, more flame-filled than typical for YT)


WOW, the first 4 minutes are hand-drawn animation depicting the impact on INDIVIDUAL HUMAN BEINGS and it somehow makes way more real and hitting home than any black-and-white photo of the mushroom cloud or the rubble of buildings.

Takes me back to how I felt the first time I watched "The Day After", and especially "Threads".