Over 2000 Nuclear Explosions Mapped (2: 1960-93), incl. Tsar Bomba

Mapping all Nuclear Tests, over 2000, in three parts. Part 1 is up to 1960, Part 2 is 1960 to 1993, and Part 3 is 1993 onward. Primary data source is https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nucl....

0:00 Introduction
0:27 1960-1993 timestep map
1:55 US 1961-1993 Mainland
4:21 US 1962 Pacific Proving Grounds (Dominic)
4:54 USSR 1961 Tsar Bomba (50 Mt)
6:42 USSR 1961-1962 K Project
6:58 USSR 1962-1993 incl. Test 219 (24 Mt)
8:08 UK 1962-1991 Nevada Test Site
8:18 France 1960-1966 Algeria
8:48 France 1966-1993 French Polynesia
9:08 China 1964-1993 Lop Nur, Xinjiang
9:34 India 1974 Smiling Buddha
9:44 Nuclear tests map (1960-1993)
10:07 End cards

Methodological notes:
-Where preferred/best yield estimates were unreported or unknown, the yield value used for mapping was the midpoint between reported minimum and maximum yields, an unofficial estimate, or the average yield value for the corresponding series of tests.
-May include some tests that did not detonate, either by design or by failure
-Some coordinates are approximate, a few obvious blunders were corrected
-Monthly time step animation used with sonification done by R package ‘sonify’
-Uncertainty in counts because of covert testing and limited reporting
-ArcGIS Pro Disperse Markers tool used to visualize overlapping points on map near the end of the video

Keywords: Geography Viz, Nuclear Tests Mapped, Nuclear Explosions by Country and Size, USA Nuclear Tests, USSR Nuclear Tests, UK Nuclear Tests, French Nuclear Tests, China Nuclear Tests, India Nuclear Tests, Pakistan Nuclear Tests, NK Nuclear Tests, Time Series, World Geography

Sources and inspirations:

Data up to 2009: https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nucl...

Six post-2000 North Korea tests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Data checking and cleaning:
https://github.com/rfordatascience/ti...
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer...
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Time/inde...
Multiple Wikipedia listings of nuclear tests by year

A Vox map inspiration: https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/10/1/...

Plot inspiration: https://railsback.org/FQS/FQSNuclearW...

Most images and video clips are from Wikipedia Commons