TED中英官方演讲稿-IrwinRedlener_2008如何在核袭击中生存.docxVIP

1.So, a big question that were facing now and have been for quite a number of years now: Are we at risk of a nuclear attack? 我们现在面临一个大问题 这个问题已经持续了很多年： 我们是否处于遭受核袭击的危险之中呢？2.Now, theres a bigger question thats probably actually more important than that, is the notion of permanently eliminating the possibility of a nuclear attack, 现在，有一个更大的问题 这个问题可能比刚刚提到的那个问题更重要 那就是，我们能不能永久地消除 核袭击的可能性3.eliminating the threat altogether. 能不能将这种威胁完全消除4.And I would like to make a case to you that over the years since we first developed atomic weaponry, until this very moment, weve actually lived in a dangerous nuclear world 我想给大家举个例子 从核武器被发明以来的这些年间 直到此时此刻 我们其实一直生活在一个危险的核世界5.thats characterized by two phases, which Im going to go through with you right now. 这可以分为两个阶段 我现在和大家一起来回顾一下6.First of all, we started off the nuclear age in 1945. 首先，我们从1945年开始正式进入核时代7.The United States had developed a couple of atomic weapons through the Manhattan Project, and the idea was very straightforward: we would use the power of the atom 美国通过曼哈顿计划 成功研制出了核武器 目的非常明确 我们将动用核武器的力量8.to end the atrocities and the horror of this unending World War II that wed been involved in in Europe and in the Pacific. 来结束无休止的二战 所带来的残暴与恐惧 我们当时被卷入了欧洲和太平洋战场9.And in 1945, we were the only nuclear power. 在1945年 我们是唯一的有核国家10.We had a few nuclear weapons, two of which we dropped on Japan in Hiroshima, a few days later in Nagasaki, in August 1945, killing about 250,000 people between those two. 我们有一定数量的核武器 其中一枚投在了日本广岛市 另一枚几天之后扔在了长崎，这些发生在1945年8月 这两枚原子弹一共造成25万人死亡11.And for a few years, we were the only nuclear power on Earth. 之后的一些年间 我们一直是地球上唯一的有核国家12.But by 1949, the Soviet Union had decided it was unacceptable to have us as the only nuclear power, and they began to match what the United States had developed. 但是1949年，苏联认为 只有美国拥有核武器是一件无法接受的事情 他们开始和美国一样发展核武器13.And from 1949 to 1985 was an extraordinary time of a buildup of a nuclear arsenal that no one could possibly have imagined back in the 19