Swords into Plowshares

“And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more” (Isa. 2:4 KJV).

A sonification and visualization of estimated nuclear warhead stockpiles from 1945 to 2022.1 Each warhead raises the frequency by 0.1 cent (1000th of a semitone).

1M. Roser, B. Herre, and J. Hasell, “Nuclear Weapons,” Our World in Data, accessed 1 April 2022, ourworldindata.org/nuclear-weapons.

Let Us Beat Swords Into Plowshares sculpture by Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich, photo by Neptuul, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

  • Project Type: Sonification and visualization of data
  • Year: 2022
  • Duration: 2:41