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A Vulnerable Earth Through attempts to weaponize Earth itself, Cold War researchers unintentionally created a new understanding of a fragile planet.

机译:脆弱的地球通过对地球本身进行武器化的尝试,冷战研究人员无意间对脆弱的星球产生了新的认识。

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In 1960 a catastrophic, weeklong series of earthquakes struck Chile, resulting in the flooding of several hundred miles of coastline, the deaths of thousands of Chileans, and the displacement of millions more. For civilian observers, in the words of the New York Times and as quoted by Jacob Hamblin in Arming Mother Nature, the quake "gave tragic testimony that in this age of "the conquest of the atom and of triumphs in outer space man is still helpless against the vast and still largely unpredictable forces that frequently go berserk in his immediate environment—hurricanes, volcanoes and earthquakes" (p. 141). Cold War scientists, engineers, and strategists on both sides of the Iron Curtain saw this vulnerability of man to natural catastrophe from a very different angle.
机译:1960年,智利发生了为期一周的灾难性地震,导致数百英里的海岸线被洪水淹没,成千上万的智利人丧生,数百万人流离失所。对于平民观察者而言,用《纽约时报》的话以及雅各布·哈姆布林在《武装大自然》中所引用的话,地震“悲剧地证明,在这个时代,”征服外层空间原子和胜利的人仍然无助对抗飓风,火山和地震等在他周围的环境中经常发狂的庞大而仍然不可预测的力量”(第141页)。铁幕两侧的冷战科学家,工程师和战略家都看到了人类的这种脆弱性自然灾害从一个非常不同的角度来看。

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