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 closed to the public inward 1956.
Of course of written report the nuclear arms race didn't halt inward 1956. In fact the USA, Russian Federation in addition to many other countries closed to the public bring continued to behaviour on developing their nuclear capabilities. One agency of determining who is continuing to attempt 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 attempt 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 only were instead caused past times either quarry blasting or nuclear testing.
Blast Map shows the place of these quarry blasts in addition to nuclear tests closed to the world. The nautical chart beneath the map shows the magnitude in addition to appointment of each of the blasts. The nautical chart in addition to map are synchronized together in addition to thence that the nautical chart automatically updates to reverberate the information inward the electrical flow map view. You tin too purpose the nautical chart to refine the information shown on the map past times hit of magnitude in addition to date.
The map sidebar provides links to pregnant nuclear testing events. For example, if yous click on the 'Soviet Nuclear Archipelago' link yous tin persuasion a map in addition to nautical chart persuasion of soviet nuclear testing from 1964-1991. You tin read a piffling to a greater extent than close the significance of these highlighted testing events in addition to how the map was made on this Adventures inward Mapping weblog post.
