Isao Hashimoto's "1945-1998" is a visualization of (known) worldwide nuclear detonations from 1945 to 1998. It starts slowly, showing the first three detonations Trinity, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki individually and "zoomed in" at the point of detonation. It then zooms out to show the world map, and counts off a month per second for the next 53 years. It's a beautiful viz.
I originally saw this on the information aesthetics blog. There are also some versions on youtube, but they are less satisfying because they've been trimmed to fit the 10:00 time limit for most youtube videos.
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