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Latitude and Longitude of Nuclear Explosions

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Rrachelhahn
Last edited Sep 24, 2019
Created on Sep 9, 2019

This visualization displays the geographic distribution of nuclear explosions using latitude and longitude coordinates overlaid on a world map. The map background is rendered using the `geoNaturalEarth1` projection and `geoPath` from the D3 library, while `world-atlas` data provides the country boundaries. Each explosion is plotted as a circle using `vl.markCircle` from Vega-Lite, with tooltips revealing the region. The data is fetched as CSV from a GitHub gist, showing clusters of detonations across the United States and Russia.

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This is a visualization of the dataset Nuclear Explosions that shows where each deployments went off by latitute and longitude. Imagine there was a world map picture behind it- we can see many went off in the middle of the US as well as in Russia.

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