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Every nuclear explosion

All 2,057 nuclear detonations, from Trinity in 1945 to North Korea's last test, as bubbles sized by yield. After the 1963 test-ban treaty the giants move underground. Press play to run the timeline.

Data & source

Data: SIPRI / FOA via tidytuesday, plus North Korea 2006–2017 from public seismic records · updated — · yields are best published estimates; many are ranges — the larger bound is shown