Every Nuclear Explosion from 1945 to 1998 mapped in Time Lapse

[Zak33]

I think many of you will have seen this....

But I also think it will makes me think about just how two faced the world is about who should be allowed nukes and who shouldn't.

[g8ina]

Chilling.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Glowing.

FTFY!!

On a more serious note,no wonder we need to raid old ship wrecks for certain steels - look at the radioactive footprint over the USSR and the USA!!

[Andeh13]

Very cool, never seen that before!

[Nelly.]

You might find this interesting, if you have a spare 30 minutes to watch this YouTube video of a documentary made by John Pilger.

The US dropped 67 nuclear bombs on this tiny island nation — and now it's far more radioactive than we thought

More than 60 years after the US dropped dozens of nuclear bombs on the Marshall Islands, residents of the tiny nation still may not be able to return.

Radiation levels in some areas of the country are almost double what is deemed safe for human habitation, according to a new Columbia University study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Between 1946 and 1958, the US tested 67 nuclear weapons on the Marshall Islands, a chain of atolls in the Pacific Ocean with a population of just 52,000.

The most famous test, the "Bravo shot," was dropped on Bikini Atoll in 1954 and was 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Residents of the atoll were displaced, and today it remains uninhabited.

The researchers discovered that radioactive materials on Bikini Atoll are producing 184 millirems of radiation a year — almost double the safety standard of 100 set by the US and the Marshall Islands. Some parts of the region hit a whopping 639 millirems per year.

Scientists had once predicted Bikini Atoll's radiation levels to be as low as 16 millirems a year, suggesting that the radiation has persisted far longer than previously imagined, according to Science News.

Link >> http://uk.businessinsider.com/marsha...diation-2016-6