The Nuclear Weapon Testing Map

Earlier this calendar month the Future of Life Institute partnered amongst NukeMap to exercise 1100 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Targets, an interactive map showing all U.S. nuclear targets roughly the public inward 1956.

Of class the nuclear arms race didn't destination inward 1956. In fact the USA, Russian Federation as well as many other countries roughly the public bring continued to acquit on developing their nuclear capabilities. One means of determining who is continuing to bear witness nuclear weapons is past times analyzing seismic records. Which is just what Blast Map has done.

Blast Map is a map showing surreptitious nuclear tests carried out past times countries across the globe since 1963. 1963 was the twelvemonth the Partial Test Ban Treaty came into force, which prohibited all bear witness detonations of nuclear weapons except underground. Using information from the Northern California Earthquake Data Center the map shows all seismic events which bring been determined to live non geological inward nature simply were instead caused past times either quarry blasting or nuclear testing.

Blast Map shows the place of these quarry blasts as well as nuclear tests roughly the world. The nautical chart beneath the map shows the magnitude as well as engagement of each of the blasts. The nautical chart as well as map are synchronized together then that the nautical chart automatically updates to reverberate the information inward the electrical current map view. You tin likewise role the nautical chart to refine the information shown on the map past times hit of magnitude as well as date.

The map sidebar provides links to pregnant nuclear testing events. For example, if yous click on the 'Soviet Nuclear Archipelago' link yous tin sentiment a map as well as nautical chart sentiment of soviet nuclear testing from 1964-1991. You tin read a footling to a greater extent than most the significance of these highlighted testing events as well as how the map was made on this Adventures inward Mapping weblog post.