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Every nuclear explosion

All 2,057 detonations from Trinity in 1945 to North Korea in 2017 — one bubble each, sized by yield. Solid bubbles burst in the open air; faded ones were underground. Tap or hover any of them.

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