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Yesterday Japan remembered the nuclear holocaust on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. For the first time in history this national event was joined by delegates of the US and France. Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto’s “1945-1998″ is an animated map showing the 2,053 nuclear explosions that took place around the world during the 20th century, from the detonations at Alamogordo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to the tests conducted by India and Pakistan in 1998. At the end of the clip you will be mesmerized by the enormous of amount of nucleair explosions and the complete insanity it represents it is MAD.

Wikipedia reads: Mutual assured destruction (M.A.D.) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender. It is based on the theory of deterrence according to which the deployment of strong weapons is essential to threaten the enemy in order to prevent the use of the very same weapons. The strategy is effectively a form of Nash equilibrium, in which both sides are attempting to avoid their worst possible outcome, in this case, nuclear annihilation.

What is interesting in this animation is that every constant pitch bleep is a month, a tone on a different pitch represents a nucleair explosion from one nation. Every nation has a different tone which later will form the “chords” of destruction all packed in a sarcastic wargames like “pong” video game interface. Lower right shows the total amount of nuclear explosions.