Originally Posted by Dallas
Amazing. I'd have guessed at maybe inside 100 nuclear detonations across the world, but 2053! Blimey...
It's a little more than that, Dallas - this cuts off in 1998, so it misses the end of the Pakistani series (and NB, China allegedly conducted some tests for Pakistan in China in the 80s, which would make sense given that Pakistan uses Chinese bomb designs). It also leaves off the North Korean tests in 2006/09 and earlier this year.
Wiki is
pretty good on this, actually.
Oh, and in omitting it, the movie also decides that the "
Vela incident" off of southern African in 1979 definitely *wasn't* a joint Israeli / (apartheid) South African test....
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