The threat we thought had gone away

How the world changed after the invention and adaption of nuclear weapons as a founding part of the world's arsenal of war. From Hiroshima to Ukraine, visualizing how the number of nuclear warheads has developed over time.
Today the United States, Russia, China, the United Kingdom, France, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea have nuclear capabilities. Iran is the only know to pursue. But in the 1980's the world had many more nuclear warheads than today, many times over. Will the world end its nuclear programmes soon?
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Small Circles Forward by Daniel Karlsson Lönnö 2022.
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00:00 Intro
00:20 Hiroshima and Nagasaki
02:24 The world had gone nuclear
03:41 Visualizing nuclear warheads
06:05 Notes for statistics used
06:58 Nuclear bomb testings
07:17 Nuclear as deterrence
09:51 Japan
11:22 Outro
Visualization:
1 marker (orange, pink, yellow) indicate 10 nuclear warheads in active stockpile. Weapons cued for dismantlement are not included.
1 white marker indicate a nation with 1-9 nuclear warheads.
Sources:
Nuclear Weapons from Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/nuclear-we...
Status of World Nuclear Forces from Federation of American Scientists fas.org/issues/nuclear-weapon...
The map uses current day geographical borders and divisions. The borders on the map does not necessary represent the views of me.
Video and image rights:
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Used under a Creative Commons Licence from commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Ukrinform TV. Used under a Creative Commons Licence from commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Dsns.gov.ua. Used under a Creative Commons Licence from commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... and commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Storyblocks; www.videoblocks.com/.
All other videos are from the public domain, mainly from a variety of government agencies of the United States.
Music from Epidemic Sounds:
"Returning to Base Camp" by John Barzetti downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
"Flaming Eightballs" by The Best Ofs downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
"Airglow" by Max Anson downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
"Where does it end" by Max Anson downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
"Nippon" by Yi Nantiro downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
Vectorized map: World with Countries - Single Color by FreeVectorMaps.com

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What a fantastic video, thank you!! Having been to the National Atomic Testing Museum in Nevada USA, it was great to see how other countries compared.

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India's first nuclear test was in 1974.

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What an coincidence.The video came out when I was reading the part of Enlightenment Now discussing nuclear weapons.

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