A nice litle display of lights and, at times, a sprightly tune. A tune played to the number of nuclear bomb tests conducted between 1945 and 1998. It's a little eerie, watching those lights and listening to the tones bubble along their merry way. The pauses -- the times when no tests were conducted -- are the oddest, as all you hear is that ticking of the clock, waiting for the next bomb to go off.
A few significant things I noticed:
- 1972, a significant year in my life, 23 tests by the US alone.
- Late 1980s: The United Kingdom conducts tests on US soil.
- December 1988, 1,000th US test. Merry Christmas.
- 1993, the US and USSR stop testing. China, India, France, and Pakistan keep having fun.
- 1997, the first year without a kaboom.
- 1998, Pakistan joins the nuclear club.
What, you may ask, an advocate of nuclear power fretting over nuclear bomb tests? Well duh. I don't like all things nuclear, you know. We can do without the bombs, thank you very much.
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I need to learn Spanish or Portuguese and move to South America.
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