Got this fascinating animation on Facebook today:

A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto

Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan’s nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea’s two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear).

Unfortunately it came with this comment from a noted Lubbock GOP pundit:

If only 1% was used on the Islamic Jihad then the beheading, raping, and burning of victims would be drastically reduced.

Yeah, too bad we didn’t have a bunch of nukes to use in France and Belgium in 1944, would have made short work of all the Nazi troops deployed there!

*Headdesk*