At a time when the world is reluctantly learning to live with North Korea's possession of nuclear weapons and is trying to keep Iran from joining the club, it is useful to be reminded of how it felt to be waiting for nuclear proliferation the first time around.rnIn Red Cloud at Dawn, Michael D. Gordin describes the key decisions made with regard to nuclear weapons policy during the period when the United States had a monopoly on such weapons after World War II. Topics covered include U.S. expectations regarding how long that monopoly would last, the extent to which spies advanced the Soviet nuclear weapons program, the establishment of the U.S. system for detecting the first Soviet detonation of a test bomb, and the reaction in Washington when the first Soviet test was detected in August 1949.
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机译：在世界不愿学习与朝鲜拥有核武器生活在一起并试图阻止伊朗加入该俱乐部之际，有必要提醒人们，第一次来时它在等待核扩散的感觉是有用的。在《黎明的红云》中，迈克尔·高丹（Michael D. Gordin）描述了在第二次世界大战后美国对核武器进行垄断的时期，有关核武器政策的关键决定。涉及的话题包括美国对这一垄断将持续多长时间的期望，间谍在多大程度上推进了苏联核武器计划，建立了美国用于检测苏联第一次引爆试验炸弹的系统以及华盛顿在第一次爆炸时的反应。 1949年8月，苏联进行了检测。
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