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Chapter one is 1949 to 1991, when the Soviet Union broke up, 第一个时期从1949年到1991年苏联解体 and what we were dealing with, at that point and through those years, was a superpowers' nuclear arms race. 我们要关注的是在这些年间有一场超级大国之间的核军备竞赛 It was characterized by a nation-versus-nation, very fragile standoff. 这场核军备竞赛最主要的特点就是，国家之间的...
So, a big question that we're facing now and have been for quite a number of years now: 我们现在面临一个大问题，这个问题已经持续了很多年： are we at risk of a nuclear attack? 我们是否处于遭受核袭击的危险之中呢？ Now, there's a bigger question that's probably actually more important than that, 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 is the n...
And what happens is — this is — I'm going to show you now some fallout plumes. 接下来将要发生的－这是－我现在要向大家演示放射性坠尘。 Within 20 minutes, it comes straight down. 在20分钟内，坠尘直线下落； Within 24 hours, lethal radiation is going out with prevailing winds, 24小时内，致命的辐射将随着盛行风飘散 and it's mostly in this particular direction &...
And one of the greatest governmental delusions of all time 政府有史以来最大的幻想之一 was something that happened in the early days of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, as we now know, 是由早期的联邦紧急情况管理署（FEMA）提出的 and are well aware of their behaviors from Katrina. 我们在卡特里娜飓风的时候已经领教过FEMA的本事了 Here is their first big public announ...
And the farther you are away in distance, 你距离爆炸点的距离越远越好 the longer it is in time from the initial blast; 距离爆炸的时间越长越好 and the more separation between you and the outside atmosphere, the better. 尽可能地将自己和外界隔绝开来 So separation — hopefully with dirt or concrete, or being in a basement — 所以，与外界隔绝隔绝–最好是用泥土和水泥...
This was basically an attempt to teach our schoolchildren 这个算是尝试着教正在上学的孩子们 that if we did get engaged in a nuclear confrontation and atomic war, 如果我们真的被卷入一次核冲突或者核战争 then we wanted our school children to kind of basically duck and cover. 我们希望我们的孩子们迅速躲到桌子下面 That was the principle. You — there would be a nuclear conflag...