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核恐怖已经随着冷战的结束而减弱，但是灾难医学专家伊文·雷德莱纳提醒我们这个威胁依然存在。他回顾了历史上一些荒谬的关于应对核袭击的对策，并给出了一些切实可行的在核袭击中生存的建议。
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- And what happened was -- when we get in to chapter two of the nuclear threat era, which started back in 1945.
- 而现实是当我们进入1945年开始的核威胁时期的第二阶段
- Chapter two starts in 1991.
- 第二个阶段是从1991年开始的
- When the Soviet Union broke up,
- 当苏联解体之后
- we effectively lost that adversary as a potential attacker of the United States, for the most part.
- 美国实际上上失去了竞争对手，这个长久以来潜在的袭击者基本不复存在了
- It's not completely gone. I'm going to come back to that.
- 但苏联的威胁也不是完全消失了，我一会儿会再提到这一点
- But from 1991 through the present time, emphasized by the attacks of 2001,
- 从1991年开始直到现在，尤其是2001年的9.11事件说明
- the idea of an all-out nuclear war has diminished and the idea of a single event,
- 全面爆发的核战争的可能性已经逐渐减小，
- act of nuclear terrorism is what we have instead.
- 取而代之的是单独的核恐怖袭击活动
- Although the scenario has changed very considerably,
- 情况虽然和以前大不一样
- the fact is that we haven't changed our mental image of what a nuclear war means.
- 但事实是我们头脑里对于核战争的理解并未改变
- So I'm going to tell you what the implications of that are in just a second.
- 我一会儿会说明这意味着什么
- So, what is a nuclear terror threat?
- 那么，什么是核恐怖袭击呢？
- And there's four key ingredients to describing that.
- 它有四个关键组成部分
- First thing is that the global nuclear weapons,
- 第一个是全球范围内核武器
- in the stockpiles that I showed you in those original maps, happen to be not uniformly secure.
- 就是我之前给大家看的那张地图所显示的核武器储备，其实并不是全部都处于安全状态
- And it's particularly not secure in the former Soviet Union, now in Russia.
- 尤其是那些前苏联所拥有的核武器，现在这些核武器在俄罗斯手中
- There are many, many sites where warheads are stored
- 这些核弹头储存在很多地方
- and, in fact, lots of sites where fissionable materials,
- 可事实上，这其中又很多地方对于储存，
- like highly enriched uranium and plutonium, are absolutely not safe.
- 如高浓缩铀和钚这样的裂变物质而言，并不安全
- They're available to be bought, stolen, whatever.
- 这些核弹头可能被贩卖或是被偷窃
- They're acquirable, let me put it that way.
- 换句话说，它们可以被其他人得到
- From 1993 through 2006, the International Atomic Energy Agency documented 175 cases of nuclear theft,
- 从1993年到2006年，国际原子能机构记录在案的核失窃案件就有175起
- 18 of which involved highly enriched uranium or plutonium,
- 其中18起和高浓缩铀和钚有关
- the key ingredients to make a nuclear weapon.
- 这些是制造核武器的关键原料
- The global stockpile of highly enriched uranium is about 1,300, at the low end, to about 2,100 metric tons.
- 全球的高浓缩铀储备大约为1300吨到2100吨之间
- More than 100 megatons of this is stored in particularly insecure Russian facilities.
- 其中至少有100吨储存在非常不安全的俄罗斯的储备设施中
- How much of that do you think it would take to actually build a 10-kiloton bomb?
- 大家觉得造一个一万吨级当量的核弹，大约需要多少高浓缩铀呢？
- Well, you need about 75 pounds of it.
- 你需要大约75磅高浓缩铀
- So, what I'd like to show you is what it would take to hold 75 pounds of highly enriched uranium.
- 所以，我想给大家展示一下，那就是75磅高浓缩铀大约是多少呢？
- This is not a product placement.
- 我这可不是在做软广告。
- It's just -- in fact, if I was Coca Cola, I'd be pretty distressed about this --
- 这只是...事实上，如果我是可口可乐公司，我一定为此非常郁闷
- but basically, this is it.
- 但是基本上，就是这么多
- This is what you would need to steal or buy out of that 100-metric-ton stockpile
- 你只要从那100吨没有被安全储存的原料中偷取或者购买这么多就够了
- that's relatively insecure to create the type of bomb that was used in Hiroshima.
- 储存设施偷取的高浓缩铀总量，从而制造出一个核弹威力相当于在广岛爆炸的那枚核弹
- Now you might want to look at plutonium as another fissionable material that you might use in a bomb.
- 现在你们可能想看看如果是钚，另一种可用于制造核弹的裂变物质
- That -- you'd need 10 to 13 pounds of plutonium.
- 你需要10到13磅钚
- Now, plutonium, 10 to 13 pounds: this.
- 钚，10到13磅，这是这么多，
- This is enough plutonium to create a Nagasaki-size atomic weapon.
- 这些钚足以制造一个威力相当于在长崎爆炸的那枚原子弹
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| mental | ['mentl] | 联想记忆 | ||
| secure | [si'kjuə] | 联想记忆 | ||
| effectively | [i'fektivli] | |||
| potential | [pə'tenʃəl] | |||
| diminished | [di'miniʃt] | |||
| adversary | ['ædvəsəri] | 联想记忆 | ||
| terror | ['terə] | 联想记忆 | ||
| insecure | [,insi'kujə] | 联想记忆 | ||
| threat | [θret] | |||
| absolutely | ['æbsəlu:tli] |
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