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家园 【最新一期时代杂志的文章】No More Nukes?

这篇文章有很大一部分追溯了美苏之间军备竞争的历史(how the Arms Race Exploded),读完之后异常沉重,说不出来的难受,同时也稍稍能够更深地理解当年太祖的选择。

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The U.S. Strategy (enshrined in Eisenhower's "massive retaliation" policy) was this: If the Soviets attacked the U.S. or Western Europe, even if no nukes were fired in the process, the U.S. would launch all of its nuclear weapons against every target in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and communist Chin........

(译:美国的战略是,一旦苏联袭击美国或西欧,即使没有使用核武器,美国也将动用其所有的核武器对苏联、东欧和中国进行打击。)

The SIOP (the first formal nuclear war plan devised by the U.S. military) determined which weapons would be fired or dropped on which targets. The calculations that went into the plan were hair-raising, resulting in tremendous overkill. .....There was similar overkill across the map......The SIOP came down to this: in the event of sudden war with the Soviet Union, the U.S. would shoot all its nuclear weapons on alert--1,459 nuclear bombs, totalling 2,164 megatons--against 654 targets in the U.S.S.R., Eastern Europe and China, killing 175 million people who happened to live under communist rule.

(译:SIOP决定使用何种武器打击目标,最后的结果令人毛骨悚然:如果苏联发动突然袭击,美国将动用其全部核武对苏联、东欧和中国进行反击,1.75亿碰巧生活在共产主义统治之下的老百姓将灰飞烟灭。)

If the U.S. launched its entire arsenal in a pre-emptive first strike, the attack would involve 3,423 nuclear weapons totaling 7,847 megatons, killing 285 million cummunist subjects and injuring 40 million more. (Noboday calculated how many would die from radio-active fallout in the East and the West......) All this information was classified beyond top secret. The general public knew none of it.........

(简译:如果美国首先发起攻击,核武器将杀死2.85亿共产主义统治之下的百姓,受伤人数4千万以上。(没有人计算过东西方还会有多少人死于核辐射余波)...........

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人群一旦被划界,活生生的人,便成为冷冰冰的死伤数据中的一个1。当我在纽约街头和不同族裔的人擦肩而过,微笑说Hi,当我从公立图书馆的书架上取下列夫托尔斯泰的著作身边的一个美国人对我说,这也是我最喜欢的作家时,我们都没有意识到换一个时代,换一个场景,我们就是敌人,就是某个战略计划下的一粒炮灰----政治家能在多大程度上维护住人类的理性?或许每个人都当思如何以心底的善意帮助人类自救。

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今天还看了一个Steve Jobs的演讲。非常有启发性。在这个演讲中,他说了三个故事:

第一:connecting the dots. (我们人生中看似不相关的事件会存在一种关联性,会有一种因果。)

第二:Love and loss.

第三:Death. 这是最好的部分,充满智慧。

最后他给学生的赠言是:Stay hungry, Stay foolish.

演讲并不长,15分钟,推荐一下:

[FLASH]http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html[/FLASH]

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