This is a sobering video. A time-lapse map of every nuclear explosion since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto.
The soundtrack consists of a beep for each passing month, and a beep for each explosion. The pitch of each 'explosion beep' corresponds to the country which detonated each explosion. It makes a kind of music remeniscent of (bad) 8-bit home computer games from the eighties. As an alternative, mute the video and listen to the Carlos Santana track from his Divine Light album (it's about the right length, and the title seems appropriate).
The thing that struck me most is this. Of the seven countries which have detonated nuclear bombs, only the UK and France didn't set any off in their home territory.
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