a map of all nuclear explosions that took place between the first one, trinity in new mexico on 16th july 1945, and the last ones - pakistan’s nuclear tests at the end of may 1998. i didn’t realise that we’d never had a single nuclear explosion in western europe. the uk inflicted their tests upon the likes of australia and christmas island and france carried theirs out in algeria and the south pacific too.

i also didn’t know that the bombs that were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki were the second and third nuclear explosions ever, i had this idea there was more testing after trinity.

let’s hope that that map is complete.

[found via caterina.net]