This eerie visualisation was created by Ortibal Mechanics,an audiovisual collective based in Montreal. It begins in 1945, before picking up speed with thousands of detonations over the following decades. Each one is colour-coded: red for atmospheric, or yellow for underground,and blue for underwater.
Coder Ehsan Rezaie included every detonation he could cross-reference in both the Australian governments geoscience database and this archive. The only specific omission is the 2013 North Korean test, which has only been verified by detection of seismic activityContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com