Unit 3: Prisoners Dilemma - We are all going to die! :-)

A rather scary but neat way of showing the escalation risk in the nuclear arms race, and race to the bottom / Prisoners' Dilemma that exists in this field.

Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan’s nuclear tests in May of 1998.

Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen. 1960s was a bit scary!