What the Hell Were We Thinking?

Here's a post from 2010 worth revisiting on Thursday's 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. This is a video that starts slow, but around three minutes in ... well. It shows every nuclear bomb explosion on the Earth from 1945--the U.S. test before the bombs dropped on Japan--to 1998, when India and Pakistan joined the madness. The animation is an art project by Isao Hashimoto, and is powerful indeed. I grew up when the Cold War was at its coldest, and seeing this still gives me a chill. In ...