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END OF THE PLUTONIUM AGE

机译:P时代的终结

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Between 1951 and 1992, the United States set off nearly a thousand nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site, an empty and awesome stretch of desert whose cratered surface resembles the face of the moon. Throughout the site's 1,350 square miles are the remains of houses, fortified bunkers, and parking garages, structures built to see how much damage bombs of various sizes could do. Visible amid the detritus of bomb blasts are simple examples of plu-tonium's power—telltale shards of the radioactive green glass that is created at ground zero during a nuclear explosion. As I toured the desert recently with some of the men who specialize in the arcane art of detonating nuclear weapons, it occurred to me that the Americans who mastered plutonium had plenty in common with the smiths and chemists who first mastered iron, bronze, copper, and steel. Every great empire in history, from the Greeks to the British, has been founded on an ability to manipulate metal into new and ever more lethal forms.
机译:在1951年至1992年之间,美国在内华达州试验场发射了将近一千枚核弹,这是一片空旷而又令人敬畏的沙漠,其火山口表面类似于月球表面。整个遗址的1,350平方英里处都是房屋残骸,设防的掩体和停车场,这些建筑是为了观察各种大小的炸弹能造成多大破坏而建造的。在炸弹爆炸的碎屑中可见的是simple功率的简单示例-放射性绿色玻璃的星状碎片,是在核爆炸过程中在零地面处生成的。当我最近与一些专门研究核武器的神秘技术的人一起游览沙漠时,我发现掌握master的美国人与首先掌握铁,青铜,铜,和钢铁。从希腊人到英国人,历史上每个伟大的帝国都建立在将金属加工成新的甚至更致命的形式的能力之上。

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