Command and Control

Jeffrey Plumb, PTS Team: I was fairly new to working out on the missile sites.

Jeffrey Plumb，PTS 团队：我对于在导弹基地进行锻炼还相当陌生。

At the age of 19, you know, you’ve got that no fear mentality.

19岁的时候，你知道，你已经有了无所畏惧的心态。

Right above us was a nine megaton thermonuclear warhead.

我们的正上方是一枚九兆吨的热核弹头。

To see the magnitude of that weapon within ten feet from you.

看看距离你十英尺以内的武器的威力。

It was a monster waiting to go off.

这是一个等待消失的怪物。

When you think about working on a weapon of mass destruction, you’re counting on everything to work perfect all the time, and things just don’t work perfect all the time.

当你考虑研制大规模杀伤性武器时，你会指望一切都能始终完美运行，但事情并非始终完美运行。

Allan Childers, Missile Combat Crew: The first thing that my commander heard are the words “uh oh.”

艾伦·奇尔德斯（Allan Childers），导弹战斗人员：我的指挥官听到的第一句话是“呃哦”。

Dave Powell, PTS Team: The fuel vapors in the silo are just climbing and climbing and climbing

PTS 团队戴夫·鲍威尔 (Dave Powell)：筒仓中的燃料蒸汽不断攀升

Jeffrey Plumb, PTS Team: We need to get the hell out of this complex.

Jeffrey Plumb，PTS 团队：我们需要离开这个复杂的地方。

Cause this thing’s gonna blow up

因为这东西会爆炸

Skip Rutherford Aide to Senator David Pryor: Do we let the world know?

卢瑟福助手向参议员大卫·普赖尔提问：我们会让世界知道吗？

Do I run out and say, “we’ve got a potential nuclear explosion?

我是否会跑出去说：“我们可能会发生核爆炸？

What do you do?

你做什么？

Rodney Holder, Missile Combat Crew: That day, September 18th, it was basically five days before my 24th birthday.

罗德尼·霍尔德（Rodney Holder），导弹战斗人员：9 月 18 日那天，距离我 24 岁生日还有 5 天。

So I was 23, Lt Alan Childers, Missile Combat Crew was 24, was the deputy.

当时我 23 岁，导弹战斗人员艾伦·奇尔德斯 (Alan Childers) 中尉 24 岁，是副手。

Allan Childers, Missile Combat Crew: When we went out on alert on a Titan system, we were on alert for 24 hours, that’s what a tour was, 24 hours.

艾伦·奇尔德斯（Allan Childers），导弹战斗人员：当我们在泰坦系统上处于戒备状态时，我们保持了 24 小时的戒备状态，这就是一次巡演，24 小时。

We had 18 silos that were spread all the way out to the eastern corner of Arkansas.

我们有 18 个筒仓，一直分布到阿肯色州的东角。

We went up the main highway to a certain point and then you had to pull off the highway on to much smaller roads.

我们沿着主要高速公路行驶到某个地点，然后你必须从高速公路上驶入更小的道路。

Until you came over a particular rise, you wouldn’t even know that the missile complex was there.

在你到达某个特定的高地之前，你甚至不会知道导弹综合体在那里。

Rodney Holder, Missile Combat Crew: As we drove up to missile complex 4-7, it’s very unassuming.

罗德尼·霍尔德（Rodney Holder），导弹战斗人员：当我们驱车前往 4-7 号导弹综合体时，这里非常不起眼。

There’s not a lot there.

那里没有很多。

There’s this huge door, and there’s some antennas.

有扇巨大的门，还有一些天线。

However, underneath that door was the most powerful warhead that the US has ever operated.

然而，在那扇门的下面是美国曾经使用过的最强大的弹头。

Allan Childers, Missile Combat Crew: Before you left the base, they gave you some codes that gave you access to the complex.

艾伦·奇尔德斯（Allan Childers），导弹战斗人员：在你离开基地之前，他们给了你一些密码，可以让你进入该综合体。

You would read the code to the commander and then you would take a lighter, set the codes on fire and drop them down into a box so they would burn up and no one else could use those codes.

你将向指挥官读出代码，然后拿一个打火机，将代码点燃，然后将它们放入盒子中，这样它们就会燃烧起来，其他人就无法使用这些代码。

All four of the crewmembers went down three flights of stairs.

所有四名机组人员都下了三层楼梯。

At the bottom of that, you got to a blast door.

在最底部，你到达了一扇防爆门。

There were a series of blast doors: 6, 7, 8, and 9.

有一系列防爆门：6、7、8 和 9。

So you’d walk through this and you’d step into the middle level of the launch control center, with all of the equipment that you needed to maintain the missile.

所以你会经历这个，然后你会进入发射控制中心的中层，那里有维护导弹所需的所有设备。

When we took charge of a complex that meant that we owned that missile until the next crew came out.

当我们负责一个综合体时，这意味着我们拥有该导弹，直到下一个机组人员出来。

So, if we went to war, we were prepared to launch those weapons on command.

因此，如果我们发动战争，我们准备按照命令发射这些武器。

Allan Childers, Missile Combat Crew: We never knew what our specific targets were, because you didn’t really want to know who you were going to destroy.

艾伦·柴尔德斯（Allan Childers），导弹战斗人员：我们从来不知道我们的具体目标是什么，因为你并不真的想知道你要摧毁谁。

Allan Childers, Missile Combat Crew: You had to be prepared to destroy an entire civilization, and we were trained on that.

艾伦·柴尔德斯（Allan Childers），导弹战斗人员：你必须做好摧毁整个文明的准备，我们接受过这方面的训练。

As heartless as it sounds, I never had a problem with it, I was doing it for my country, I was doing it to protect my country.

尽管听起来很无情，但我从来没有遇到过任何问题，我这样做是为了我的国家，我这样做是为了保护我的国家。

The whole reason I sat out there was to prevent that kind of thing from happening, that’s what deterrence was about.

我坐在那里的全部原因就是为了防止这种事情发生，这就是威慑的意义。

But deterrence is worthless if you don’t demonstrate that you’re willing to do it too, and we always had to demonstrate that I would walk out there and turn those keys in a second and I would kill ten million people and never hesitate.

但如果你不表明你也愿意这样做，那么威慑就毫无价值，而我们总是必须证明，我会走出去，在一秒钟内转动这些钥匙，我会毫不犹豫地杀死一千万人。

Allan Childers, Missile Combat Crew: Every time I went on to a complex, every time I saw the Titan II missile, I had the same sense of excitement.

艾伦·奇尔德斯（Allan Childers），导弹战斗人员：每次我前往综合体，每次看到泰坦二号导弹，我都有同样的兴奋感。

You couldn’t see the warhead from the bottom cause you were eight stories down and the cone of the warhead disappeared off in the distance.

你无法从底部看到弹头，因为你在八层楼以下，弹头的锥体消失在远处。

The warhead on top of the Titan II was three times as powerful as all the bombs used by all of the armies in the 2nd world war, including both the atomic bombs.

泰坦二号顶部的弹头威力是第二次世界大战中所有军队使用的所有炸弹（包括两颗原子弹）的三倍。

When the crewmembers successfully turned the keys, the 330,000 pound missile would lift up out of the silo.

当机组人员成功转动钥匙后，这枚重 33 万磅的导弹就会从发射井中升起。

Rodney Holder, Missile Combat Crew: And it would head out for about five minutes of powered flight to the edge of space, fly for another twenty minutes, and hit its target halfway around the world.

罗德尼·霍尔德（Rodney Holder），导弹战斗人员：它会进行大约五分钟的动力飞行，到达太空边缘，再飞行二十分钟，然后击中半个地球的目标。

Allan Childers, Missile Combat Crew: Before September 18th, the only warheads that we thought would go off in the United States would be Soviet warheads.

艾伦·奇尔德斯（Allan Childers），导弹战斗人员：9 月 18 日之前，我们认为唯一会在美国爆炸的弹头是苏联弹头。

We never considered that our own warheads could detonate on our own continent.

我们从未考虑过我们自己的弹头会在我们自己的大陆上爆炸。

Eric Schlosser, Author, Command and Control: From the very beginning of the atomic age, there has been a sense of this immense power just being on the verge of slipping out of our control.

埃里克·施洛瑟（Eric Schlosser），《命令与控制》作者：从原子时代一开始，人们就感觉到这种巨大的力量即将脱离我们的控制。

The world’s first nuclear device was fully assembled in a small tent in the middle of the desert.

世界上第一个核装置是在沙漠中央的一个小帐篷里完全组装起来的。

Nobody was sure what would happen when this thing would detonate.

没有人知道这东西爆炸时会发生什么。

They were even concerned that when the first nuclear device detonated, the earth’s atmosphere would catch on fire and every single living thing on earth would die.

他们甚至担心，当第一个核装置爆炸时，地球的大气层会着火，地球上的每一个生物都会死亡。

And yet they did the test anyway.

但他们还是做了测试。

Eric Schlosser, Author, Command and Control: After the war ended, an engineering section of the nuclear weapons program became known as the Sandia laboratory, and Sandia became America’s first atomic bomb factory.

埃里克·施洛瑟（Eric Schlosser），《指挥与控制》作者：战争结束后，核武器计划的工程部分被称为桑迪亚实验室，桑迪亚成为美国第一座原子弹工厂。

Bob Peurifoy, Director of Weapon Development, Sandia: I realized if I joined Sandia, I would be working on atomic bombs, and that was okay with me.

Bob Peurifoy，桑迪亚武器开发总监：我意识到如果我加入桑迪亚，我就会从事原子弹研究，这对我来说没问题。

We were driven by the fear of the Soviet Union.

我们被对苏联的恐惧所驱使。

Anything we conceived of the military wanted and money was free.

我们想象中的军队想要的任何东西和金钱都是免费的。

Eric Schlosser, Author, Command and Control: As the technology improved, as the number of nuclear weapons in our arsenal increased, there were soon assembly lines for making nuclear weapons.

埃里克·施洛瑟（Eric Schlosser），《指挥与控制》作者：随着技术的进步，随着我们武库中核武器数量的增加，很快就会出现制造核武器的装配线。

We had bombers in the air at all times loaded with nuclear weapons.

我们空中的轰炸机随时都装载着核武器。

We had submarines that had missiles carrying nuclear warheads.

我们的潜艇配备了携带核弹头的导弹。

It was feared that the Soviets would have far more missiles than the United States, so we went on a huge missile-building binge.

人们担心苏联拥有的导弹比美国多得多，所以我们进行了大规模的导弹制造狂潮。

At one point we only thought we needed 50 to 200 nuclear weapons to completely annihilate the Soviet Union, and by the mid 1960s we had 32,000 nuclear weapons.

我们一度认为只需要 50 到 200 枚核武器就可以彻底消灭苏联，而到 20 世纪 60 年代中期，我们已经拥有 32,000 枚核武器。

But every one of those weapons you build not only threatens your enemy, but poses a threat to yourself.

但你制造的每一件武器不仅威胁你的敌人，也对你自己构成威胁。

Allan Childers, Missile Combat Crew: September 18th was one of those days where nothing was going the way it was supposed to go.

艾伦·奇尔德斯（Allan Childers），导弹战斗人员：9 月 18 日是那些一切都没有按照预期进行的日子之一。

Rodney Holder, Missile Combat Crew: that day, September 18th we find out that they have a problem with the oxidizer tank, that the pressure is a little bit low.

导弹战斗人员罗德尼·霍尔德：9 月 18 日那天，我们发现他们的氧化剂罐有问题，压力有点低。

Allan Childers, Missile Combat Crew: Each stage of the missile had two separate tanks.

艾伦·奇尔德斯（Allan Childers），导弹战斗人员：导弹的每一级都有两个独立的坦克。

One was filled with fuel and the other was filled with oxidizer.

一个充满燃料，另一个充满氧化剂。

Rodney Holder, Missile Combat Crew: All you gotta do is mix those two fuels and you’re going to have an explosion.

罗德尼·霍尔德（Rodney Holder），导弹战斗人员：你所要做的就是混合这两种燃料，然后就会发生爆炸。

We called back to base, they said we have a maintenance team coming out.

我们打电话回基地，他们说我们有一个维护小组出来了。

A specialized unit, they called them the PTS team.

这是一个专门的单位，他们称之为 PTS 团队。

Dave Powell, PTS Team: The difference between PTS people and any other person on a missile site is we get to play with fuel and oxidizer and they don’t.

戴夫·鲍威尔 (Dave Powell)，PTS 团队：PTS 人员与导弹基地的任何其他人员之间的区别在于，我们可以使用燃料和氧化剂，而他们则不能。

I loved PTS.

我喜欢 PTS。

I loved my job.

我热爱我的工作。

My major goal at that time was to be a PTS team chief, and be the best PTS team chief ever.

我当时的主要目标是成为一名PTS队长，并且成为有史以来最好的PTS队长。

Jeffrey Plumb, PTS Team: When I arrived at Little Rock Air Force base, I would have been 19, yeah, ah no 18, my birthday is in March so I would have been one month away from being 19.

Jeffrey Plumb，PTS 团队：当我到达小石城空军基地时，我已经 19 岁了，是的，不是 18 岁，我的生日是在 3 月份，所以我还有一个月就满 19 岁了。

I think I was ready to take on the world at that point.

我想那时我已经准备好迎接世界了。

I wanted to go out to the field and work on that Titan II missile, you know, we called it a bird and I wanted to work on the birds, you know?

我想去现场研究泰坦二号导弹，你知道，我们称它为鸟，我想研究鸟，你知道吗？

Dave Powell, PTS Team: Oxidizer, when you breathe it, it turns to nitric acid.

Dave Powell，PTS 团队：氧化剂，当你呼吸它时，它会变成硝酸。

And you basically drown in your lungs if you breathe enough of it.

如果你呼吸足够多的话，你基本上就会被淹没在肺部。

Greg Devlin, PTS Team: We would work 12, 14 hour, up to 16 hour shifts, and then go to sleep, and then 5 hours later or so you get up and head back in for another 12, 13, or 14 hour day.

Greg Devlin，PTS 团队：我们会轮班工作 12 小时、14 小时，最多 16 小时，然后睡觉，然后大约 5 小时后起床，继续一天的 12 小时、13 小时或 14 小时工作。

Dave Powell, PTS Team: On September 18th, we’d had a long week, we had the next day off, so when we finished the maintenance task at the site that we were at, you know, we thought we were done.

Dave Powell，PTS 团队：9 月 18 日，我们度过了漫长的一周，第二天休息，所以当我们完成现场的维护任务时，你知道，我们认为我们已经完成了。

Our team chief called back to the base to tell them we were on our way back and they said, well before you come back we want you to stop over at 4-7 at Damascus.

我们的队长打电话给基地，告诉他们我们正在返回的路上，他们说，在你回来之前，我们希望你在 4-7 时在大马士革停留。

When we got there, they didn’t have the right part.

当我们到达那里时，他们没有合适的零件。

They had to bring the part out on a helicopter.

他们必须用直升机将零件运出。

I’d say we waited from 3:30 to about 6:00 in the evening before we could actually enter the silo.

我想说的是，我们从晚上 3:30 一直等到 6:00 左右才真正进入筒仓。

We had been on duty about eleven and a half hours.

我们值班了大约十一个半小时。

Dave Powell, PTS Team: So we started down the cableway to the silo when all of a sudden I realized that I had forgotten the torque wrench up in the truck.

Dave Powell，PTS 团队：我们沿着索道前往筒仓，突然我意识到我把扭矩扳手忘在卡车上了。

There was a change in the checklist that we were supposed to use a torque wrench from here on out, but that was a recent change.

检查表发生了变化，从现在开始我们应该使用扭矩扳手，但这是最近的变化。

I had spent 3 years basically taking the pressure cap off with a ratchet.

我花了三年的时间基本上用棘轮把压力帽取下来。

And so instead of sending somebody back to get the torque wrench, I grabbed the ratchet to do that.

因此，我没有派人回去拿扭矩扳手，而是抓住了棘轮来做到这一点。

The ratchet’s about 3 feet long and the socket is about 8 pounds.

棘轮长约 3 英尺，套筒重约 8 磅。

And I radioed to the team chief that we’re ready to begin the checklist for pressurization of stage 2 oxidizer tank.

我通过无线电向团队负责人表示，我们已准备好开始检查第二阶段氧化剂罐的增压。

Jeffrey Plumb, PTS Team: We had a problem with that ratchet.

Jeffrey Plumb，PTS 团队：我们的棘轮有问题。

It wouldn’t allow Dave to actually get the socket to clip or snap into place to be secure.

它不允许戴夫真正将插座夹住或卡入到位以确保安全。

He held the socket up against the dust cap and he put the ratchet up against it.

他将插座靠在防尘盖上，然后将棘轮放在上面。

Dave Powell, PTS Team: Basically you hold it with one hand on that ratchet handle and one hand cradles the head of the ratchet with the socket on it.

Dave Powell，PTS 团队：基本上，您用一只手握住棘轮手柄，另一只手托住带有套筒的棘轮头。

Jeffrey Plumb PTS Team: And so I got on the end of it and kind of gave it a little force and I remember saying to him “you got this?” “yeah, I got it, I got it, let go of it.”

Jeffrey Plumb PTS 团队：所以我完成了它，并给了它一点力量，我记得对他说：“你明白了吗？” “是啊，我明白了，我明白了，放开吧。”

Dave Powell, PTS Team: And I go to pick it up and the socket falls off the end of the ratchet.

Dave Powell，PTS 团队：我去捡起它，套筒从棘轮末端掉了下来。

Jeffrey Plumb, PTS Team: Just boom, right through the hole and just straight down.

Jeffrey Plumb，PTS 团队：轰隆一声，直接穿过洞，然后笔直向下。

As it was falling I was thinking “oh no, oh no, oh no”.

当它掉落时，我在想“哦不，哦不，哦不”。

I wanted to jump after that thing.

我想跳起来追那东西。

Dave Powell, PTS Team: Anytime I want I can close my eyes and see that socket.

Dave Powell，PTS 团队：任何时候我都可以闭上眼睛看到那个插座。

I see the socket bouncing off the platform.

我看到插座从平台上弹起。

I see my RFHCO glove reaching for it.

我看到我的 RFHCO 手套伸手去拿它。

And I see it falling in slow motion.

我看到它以慢动作坠落。

Seventy feet, hitting the thrust mount like it had eyeballs.

七十英尺，撞击推力支架，就像它有眼球一样。

And then a stream of fuel coming out of the missile.

然后一股燃料从导弹中喷出。

Jeffrey Plumb, PTS Team: I was just in total shock.

Jeffrey Plumb，PTS 团队：我完全震惊了。

I think we both just looked at each other for a second and, and we’re like “oh my god, what are we gonna do?” That missile was just blowing fuel.

我想我们都只是互相看了一秒钟，然后我们就想“天哪，我们要做什么？”那枚导弹只是在吹燃料。

Then the magnitude set in as far as what could happen.

然后，强度就达到了可能发生的程度。

The destructive force if that thing exploded and we can’t stop it.

如果那东西爆炸了，我们无法阻止它，那么它的破坏力就会很大。

Eric Schlosser, Author, Command and Control: 19 years before the Damascus accident, a B-52 bomber carrying two powerful hydrogen bombs took off on a routine mission over North Carolina.

埃里克·施洛瑟（Eric Schlosser），《指挥与控制》作者：大马士革事故发生 19 年前，一架携带两枚威力强大氢弹的 B-52 轰炸机在北卡罗来纳州上空执行例行任务。

During the mission, the plane experienced a fuel leak and suddenly the B-52 began to break apart mid-air.

执行任务期间，飞机发生燃油泄漏，B-52 突然在半空中解体。

As the fuselage was spinning and heading back towards Earth, the centrifugal forces pulled on a lanyard in the cockpit, and that lanyard was pulled exactly the way it would be if a crewmember wanted to release its hydrogen bombs over enemy territory.

当机身旋转并返回地球时，离心力拉动驾驶舱内的一根系索，而该系索的拉动方式与机组人员想要在敌方领土上空释放氢弹时的方式完全相同。

Bob Peurifoy, Director of Weapon Development, Sandia: Bombs are relatively dumb.

Bob Peurifoy，桑迪亚武器开发总监：炸弹相对来说比较愚蠢。

They sort of think that if you drop the bomb out of the bomb bay, you must have intended to do that.

他们有点认为，如果你把炸弹从炸弹舱里扔出来，你一定是有意这么做的。

Eric Schlosser, Author, Command and Control: One of the weapons in particular went through all of its arming steps to detonate, and when that weapon hit the ground, a firing signal was sent.

埃里克·施洛瑟（Eric Schlosser），《命令与控制》作者：其中一种武器经过了所有的武装步骤才引爆，当该武器击中地面时，就会发出开火信号。

And the only thing that prevented a full-scale detonation of a powerful hydrogen bomb in North Carolina was a single safety switch.

唯一阻止北卡罗来纳州大规模氢弹爆炸的是一个安全开关。

Bob Peurifoy, Director of Weapon Development, Sandia: All it is a two-position on-off switch.

Bob Peurifoy，桑迪亚武器开发总监：这只是一个两位开关。

That prevented four megaton disaster.

这避免了四百万吨级的灾难。

If the right two wires had touched, the bomb would have detonated.

如果右边的两根电线接触，炸弹就会爆炸。

Period.

期间。

Eric Schlosser, Author, Command and Control: The Goldsboro accident occurred at a time when the number of nuclear weapons accidents was increasing.

埃里克·施洛瑟（Eric Schlosser），《指挥与控制》作者：戈尔兹伯勒事故发生在核武器事故数量不断增加的时期。

Bob Peurifoy, Director of Weapon Development, Sandia: I read through all of the known accident reports and it scared the hell out of me.

Bob Peurifoy，桑迪亚武器开发总监：我通读了所有已知的事故报告，它把我吓坏了。

Bill Stevens, Head of Nuclear Safety, Sandia: We were shocked when we realized, all these years we’ve been thinking along this nice neat line.

比尔·史蒂文斯，桑迪亚核安全主管：当我们意识到这些年来我们一直在沿着这条漂亮的简洁路线思考时，我们感到震惊。

That’s not reality.

那不是现实。

Eric Schlosser, Author, Command and Control: : There had been all these statistical assurances that weapons wouldn’t detonate in an accident, and then there was a realization that the weapons were nowhere near as safe as everyone had assumed.

埃里克·施洛瑟（Eric Schlosser），《指挥与控制》作者：：所有这些统计数据都保证武器不会在事故中爆炸，然后人们意识到这些武器远没有大家想象的那么安全。

Bill Stevens, Head of Nuclear Safety, Sandia: We knew that fire for example could set off these electro-explosive devices inside the warhead in a random way.

桑迪亚核安全主管比尔·史蒂文斯：我们知道，例如火灾可能会以随机方式引爆弹头内的这些电爆装置。

Eric Schlosser, Author, Command and Control: During a fire, the solder might melt on a circuit board.

Eric Schlosser，《命令与控制》作者：火灾期间，电路板上的焊料可能会熔化。

It created all kinds of new electrical pathways that could completely circumvent a safety device.

它创造了各种新的电气通路，可以完全绕过安全装置。

Bob Peurifoy, Director of Weapon Development, Sandia: Of the 20 or 25 thousand weapons that we had in the stockpile I could not in good conscience swear that they were adequately safe.

Bob Peurifoy，桑迪亚武器开发总监：在我们库存的 20 或 25,000 件武器中，我不能凭良心发誓它们足够安全。

Eric Schlosser, Author, Command and Control: What they were saying is thousands of weapons in the American nuclear arsenal were vulnerable during an accident.

埃里克·施洛瑟（Eric Schlosser），《指挥与控制》作者：他们所说的是，美国核武库中的数千件武器在一次事故中很容易受到攻击。

Including the most powerful warhead on an American missile, the warhead on top of the Titan II.

包括美国导弹上威力最强的弹头，泰坦二号上面的弹头。

Rodney Holder, Missile Combat Crew: I was sitting down in the kitchen eating a sandwich when the Claxton went off.

罗德尼·霍尔德（Rodney Holder），导弹战斗人员：当克拉克斯顿爆炸时，我正坐在厨房里吃三明治。

So I didn’t think too much of it, I mean it went off it's like ok they’re just doing their procedures.

所以我没有想太多，我的意思是事情进展顺利，他们只是在执行他们的程序。

But about ten seconds later, we got another Claxton.

但大约十秒钟后，我们又得到了另一个克拉克斯顿。

I got up and I walked about halfway down the stairs.

我站起来，走了大约一半的楼梯。

And I looked down and I can see the commander’s console.

我低下头，看到了指挥官的控制台。

The commander’s console has lots of red lights flashing, and so I know something’s wrong.

指挥官的控制台上有很多红灯闪烁，所以我知道出了什么问题。

Allan Childers, Missile Combat Crew: Captain Mazzaro is crew commander.

艾伦·奇尔德斯（Allan Childers），导弹战斗人员：马扎罗上尉是机组指挥官。

The first thing that Mazarro heard and that the other team members heard are the words “uh-oh.” Mazzaro said, “What do you mean uh-oh?

马扎罗和其他团队成员听到的第一句话是“呃-哦”。马扎罗说：“呃-哦，你是什么意思？

What’s going on?” They said there’s smoke in the bottom of the launch duct.

这是怎么回事？”他们说发射管道底部有烟雾。

Commander’s trying to clear up, “What do you mean smoke in the bottom of the launch duct, do you see a fire?”

指挥官试图澄清，“你说发射管底部冒烟是什么意思，你看到火了吗？”

Dave Powell, PTS Team: The fuel vapors in the silo are just climbing and climbing and climbing.

Dave Powell，PTS 团队：筒仓中的燃料蒸汽不断攀升。

So I radioed back that we had a cloud.

所以我用无线电回复说我们有云。

A milky white cloud.

一朵乳白色的云。

I wasn’t going to say fuel over the radio.

我不会通过无线电说加油。

The reason I didn’t want to say the word fuel over the radio was because uh, in case the commander, the missile commander was listening, I didn’t want him to freak out.

我不想在无线电中说“燃料”这个词的原因是，呃，万一指挥官、导弹指挥官正在听，我不想让他惊慌失措。

Jeffrey Plumb, PTS Team: I think David was just scared to say anything about really what was happening.

Jeffrey Plumb，PTS 团队：我认为 David 只是害怕说出实际发生的事情。

Only being 21 years old.

年仅21岁。

I guess it’d almost be like, you know, you doing something wrong as a kid and you gotta tell your parents about it, you know?

我想这几乎就像，你知道，你小时候做了错事，你必须告诉你的父母，你知道吗？

You know how you kind of just stand there and you don’t want to say what you just did.

你知道你只是站在那里，不想说出你刚刚做了什么。

Dave Powell, PTS Team: I grabbed Plumb and we walked back up the cableway.

Dave Powell，PTS 团队：我抓住 Plumb，然后我们沿着索道走回去。

I immediately started looking at the fuel level reader.

我立即开始查看燃油油位读数器。

When it hits that explosive level any spark can set off the fuel.

当达到爆炸水平时，任何火花都会引发燃料。

Allan Childers, Missile Combat Crew: You could run through each of the tanks at each stage and see what the pressure was, and we saw that the pressure was dropping.

艾伦·柴尔德斯（Allan Childers），导弹战斗人员：你可以在每个阶段跑过每个坦克，看看压力是多少，我们发现压力正在下降。

It was dropping fast.

它下降得很快。

And then all of a sudden sprays came on in the launch duct, we thought well there must be a fire, it doesn’t make any sense, nothing made any sense.

然后发射管道里突然喷出水花，我们认为一定是着火了，这没有任何意义，没有任何意义。

And I jumped into my checklist.

我跳进了我的清单。

We did everything according to checklists, you know we ran the oxidizer checklists, we ran the fuel checklists, you know you stay in the checklist it’ll take care of you.

我们根据清单做了一切，你知道我们运行了氧化剂清单，我们运行了燃料清单，你知道你留在清单中，它会照顾你的。

Rodney Holder, Missile Combat Crew: About that time the maintenance team that had been out working had gotten back, and they’re standing over in the short cableway and the maintenance team chief went over and met them and they started talking.

罗德尼·霍尔德（Rodney Holder），导弹战斗人员：大约在那个时候，出去工作的维护小组回来了，他们站在短索道上，维护小组长走过去会见了他们，他们开始交谈。

At that point I said, “okay guys, what happened?” And they came in and then they explained to the crew at that point exactly what happened.

那时我说：“好吧，伙计们，发生了什么事？”他们进来后向机组人员解释了当时到底发生了什么。

Allan Childers, Missile Combat Crew: And that’s when we finally got him to admit that he had done something.

艾伦·奇尔德斯（Allan Childers），导弹战斗人员：就在那时我们终于让他承认他做了一些事情。

That he had dropped it, and it was a hole, and he saw vapors coming out, it was more than “uh oh”.

他把它掉了下来，那是一个洞，他看到蒸汽冒出来，这不仅仅是“呃哦”。

And that was the first time we knew, it was a good half hour into it.

那是我们第一次知道，已经过去了整整半个小时。

By then it was basically out of control.

到那时，事情就基本失控了。

Harold Brown, Secretary of Defense: When I became secretary of defense we had tens of thousands of nuclear weapons.

哈罗德·布朗，国防部长：当我担任国防部长时，我们拥有数以万计的核武器。

The numbers were a big problem because it only takes a few or one getting out of hand to cause a catastrophic problem.

这些数字是一个大问题，因为只要少数或一个人失控就会导致灾难性的问题。

And we worried about that, we probably didn’t worry about it enough.

我们担心这一点，但我们可能担心得还不够。

Titan II missiles by 1980 were both old and much more prone to accidents.

1980 年的泰坦 II 导弹已经很老旧，而且更容易发生事故。

Harold Brown, Secretary of Defense: Why was it still in the arsenal?

国防部长哈罗德·布朗：为什么它还在军火库里？

In part because it was part of a negotiating strategy.

部分原因是这是谈判策略的一部分。

We anticipated trading them off against Soviet heavy missiles in strategic arms negotiations.

我们预计在战略武器谈判中将它们与苏联重型导弹进行交易。

Eric Schlosser, Author, Command and Control: It was a bargaining chip, something that we could give up in order to persuade the Soviets to get rid of a class of their missiles.

埃里克·施洛瑟（Eric Schlosser），《指挥与控制》作者：这是一个讨价还价的筹码，我们可以放弃它来说服苏联放弃一类导弹。

Harold Brown, Secretary of Defense: So that was why we still had it, and it was therefore available for an accident.

哈罗德·布朗，国防部长：这就是我们仍然拥有它的原因，因此它可以用于发生事故。

ARC (News): Nearly 14,000 gallons of poisonous liquid fuel poured out killing two persons and injuring more than 20 others.

ARC（新闻）：近 14,000 加仑有毒液体燃料倾泻而出，造成两人死亡、二十多人受伤。

ARC (News): This would be missile leak number 10 so far in Arkansas.

ARC（新闻）：这将是阿肯色州迄今为止第 10 起导弹泄漏事件。

ARC (News): The Titan II is potentially an awesome weapon of war, whose only victims so far have been Americans.

ARC（新闻）：泰坦二号可能是一种令人敬畏的战争武器，迄今为止唯一的受害者是美国人。

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John Moser, Commander, 308th Strategic Missile Wing: September 18th 1980, I got a call from the command post that we had a serious problem..

约翰·莫泽，第 308 战略导弹联队指挥官：1980 年 9 月 18 日，我接到指挥所的电话，说我们遇到了严重问题。

I was the new guy.

我是新人。

I had no previous experience in Titan, I had no training in Titan, I had about three months under my belt before the accident occurred on the night of September 18th.

我以前没有在泰坦上的经验，也没有在泰坦上接受过培训，在 9 月 18 日晚上事故发生之前，我已经待了大约三个月。

I got to the command center, started to figure out what was going on.

我到达指挥中心，开始弄清楚发生了什么事。

And then I activated the missile potential hazard team.

然后我启动了导弹潜在危险小组。

Eric Schlosser, Author, Command and Control: The missile potential hazard team gathered together some of the top figures in the air force to deal with the accident.

埃里克·施洛瑟（Eric Schlosser），《指挥与控制》作者：导弹潜在危险小组聚集了空军的一些高层人物来处理这起事故。

At Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, there was Colonel Ben Scallorn, the Air Force’s leading expert on the Titan II missile.

在路易斯安那州巴克斯代尔空军基地，本·斯卡伦上校是空军泰坦二号导弹的首席专家。

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Ben Scallorn Deputy Chief of Staff For Missiles, 8th Air Force: As we were dumping fuel the oxidizer expands and there’s a possibility that it can rupture a tank, and with a silo full of fuel and you rupture an oxidizer tank and the oxidizer hits the fuel, it’s gone.

第 8 空军导弹副参谋长本·斯卡伦：当我们倾倒燃料时，氧化剂会膨胀，有可能使燃料箱破裂，而当一个装满燃料的筒仓破裂时，氧化剂燃料箱就会破裂，氧化剂会击中燃料，它就消失了。

Eric Schlosser, Author, Command and Control: In Denver there were executives from Martin Marietta who designed and built the Titan II missile.

埃里克·施洛瑟（Eric Schlosser），《指挥与控制》作者：在丹佛，马丁·玛丽埃塔公司的高管设计并制造了泰坦 II 导弹。

And in Omaha Nebraska, there was the underground headquarters of the Strategic Air Command, known as SAC.

在内布拉斯加州的奥马哈，有战略空军司令部（SAC）的地下总部。

That night all the majoyr decisions would be made at SAC headquarters by General Lloyd Leavitt.

那天晚上，所有重大决定都将由劳埃德·莱维特将军在 SAC 总部做出。

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John Moser, Commander, 308th Strategic Missile Wing: General Leavitt was a very dedicated pilot, a very courageous pilot in Korea and Vietnam, but he had no missile background at all that I’m aware of.

约翰·莫泽，第 308 战略导弹联队指挥官：莱维特将军是一位非常敬业的飞行员，在朝鲜和越南是一位非常勇敢的飞行员，但据我所知，他根本没有导弹背景。

As things progressed, we were trying to do everything we could.

随着事情的进展，我们正在尽我们所能。

We knew what was gonna happen if we lost pressure in the fuel tank; of course, the missile was gonna collapse on top of itself.

我们知道如果油箱失去压力会发生什么；当然，导弹会自行塌陷。

If the missile collapsed, the entire missile would blow up, but what would happen to the warhead was anybody’s guess.

如果导弹崩溃，整个导弹就会爆炸，但弹头会发生什么，谁也说不准。

and so it became a seat of the pants operation as things unfolded and I used every resource we had that night to try to face the problem and solve the problem.

因此，随着事情的发展，这变成了凭感觉行事，我利用那天晚上拥有的一切资源来尝试面对问题并解决问题。

One of the options was if the silo closure door was opened, there’s a possibility that the gas could have been vented.

其中一种选择是，如果筒仓封闭门打开，气体可能会被排出。

But, there was also a possibility, if the missile did explode while that door was open, it would throw the warhead out of the silo.

但是，也有一种可能性，如果导弹在门打开时爆炸，它会将弹头扔出发射井。

We would not have known where it went.

我们不会知道它去了哪里。

It could go almost anywhere.

它几乎可以去任何地方。

Eric Schlosser, Author, Command and Control: Twenty-five years earlier, a weapon similar to the one on the Titan II was tested in the South Pacific.

埃里克·施洛瑟（Eric Sc​​hlosser），《指挥与控制》作者：二十五年前，一种与泰坦二号上的武器类似的武器在南太平洋进行了测试。

The explosion wound up being three times more powerful than they had estimated.

爆炸的威力比他们估计的要大三倍。

And the test revealed that the radioactive fallout from a hydrogen bomb could be even more deadly than the blast itself.

测试表明，氢弹产生的放射性尘埃可能比爆炸本身更致命。

Back in Washington, they took a map of the fallout pattern from the Bravo Test and they superimposed it on a map of the United States.

回到华盛顿，他们绘制了布拉沃测试的辐射图案地图，并将其叠加在美国地图上。

A similar weapon detonated over Washington DC could release enough radioactive fallout to kill everyone in Washington DC, everyone in Baltimore, everyone in Philadelphia, half the population of New York City, with casualties and fatalities as far north as Boston.

在华盛顿特区上空引爆的类似武器可能会释放出足够的放射性尘埃，杀死华盛顿特区的所有人、巴尔的摩的所有人、费城的所有人、纽约市的一半人口，伤亡甚至北至波士顿。

Rodney Holder, Missile Combat Crew: The fuel tank readings started going negative and at that point I felt that it was potentially going to collapse.

罗德尼·霍尔德（Rodney Holder），导弹战斗人员：油箱读数开始变为负值，那时我觉得它可能会崩溃。

And although there are safety measures within the warhead, in the back of my mind, you always wonder.

尽管弹头内有安全措施，但在我的脑海里，你总是想知道。

I don’t think anybody truly knew what was going to happen with the warhead.

我认为没有人真正知道弹头会发生什么。

Jeffrey Plumb, PTS Team: As they were talking about these tank pressures and all these different things, I’m getting more and more anxious and more and more anxious thinking, we need to get out of here.

Jeffrey Plumb，PTS 团队：当他们谈论这些储罐压力和所有这些不同的事情时，我变得越来越焦虑，越来越焦虑地思考，我们需要离开这里。

We need, we need to get the hell out of this complex because this thing’s going to blow up.

我们需要，我们需要离开这个综合体，因为这东西会爆炸。

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John Moser, Commander, 308th Strategic Missile Wing: Some of the crewmembers were eager to make an exit, so with that in mind, we started discussing should we evacuate the people in the launch control center, or leave them in there.

约翰·莫泽，第 308 战略导弹联队指挥官：一些机组人员急于离开，因此考虑到这一点，我们开始讨论应该疏散发射控制中心的人员，还是将他们留在那里。

The reason to get them out of the silo was we had no idea what was going to happen to the launch control center if the missile exploded.

将它们从发射井中取出的原因是我们不知道如果导弹爆炸，发射控制中心会发生什么。

Allan Childers, Missile Combat Crew: I still thought we should be there.

艾伦·奇尔德斯（Allan Childers），导弹战斗人员：我仍然认为我们应该在那里。

We needed to be there.

我们需要在那里。

If we evacuated that launch control center, we would be giving up any ability to control any of the equipment, we would be giving up the capacity to try any of the ideas that people were trying to come up with in order to save this system.

如果我们撤离发射控制中心，我们将放弃控制任何设备的任何能力，我们将放弃尝试人们为拯救这个系统而试图提出的任何想法的能力。

Rodney and I told the crew commander that we wanted to stay behind.

罗德尼和我告诉机组指挥官我们想留在后面。

I couldn’t leave.

我无法离开。

Emotionally, I couldn’t go.

从感情上来说，我不能去。

Rodney Holder, Missile Combat Crew: From our standpoint we could stay because neither one of us had children at that time.

罗德尼·霍尔德（Rodney Holder），导弹战斗人员：从我们的角度来看，我们可以留下来，因为当时我们都没有孩子。

And not that we didn’t care about our lives, but you know it just seemed that it made sense to us that we should stay and let everybody else go.

并不是说我们不关心自己的生活，而是说我们应该留下来，让其他人离开，这对我们来说似乎是有意义的。

Skip Rutherford, Aide to Senator David Pryor: On the evening of September 18th, people were gathering in Hot Springs.

斯基普·卢瑟福（Skip Rutherford），参议员戴维·普赖尔（David Pryor）的助手：9 月 18 日晚上，人们聚集在温泉城。

Vice president Mondale was the keynote speaker.

副总统蒙代尔担任主旨发言人。

Senator Pryor and governor Clinton and others had already gone to Hot Springs, and I was scheduled to go over the next day.

普赖尔参议员和克林顿州长等人已经去了温泉城，我计划第二天过去。

That night we had invited a friend over for dinner, and the phone rang and it was this airman who worked on the Titan missiles.

那天晚上，我们邀请一位朋友来吃晚饭，电话响了，是这位在泰坦导弹上工作的飞行员。

But when I got off the phone from this airman, I looked around and people started asking me, saying “what's happening?” And I said, “a Titan Missile is going to explode.” And the question was well what does that mean?

但当我挂断这位飞行员的电话时，我环顾四周，人们开始问我，“发生了什么事？”我说，“泰坦导弹要爆炸了。”问题是这是什么意思？

What it means is if that nuclear warhead explodes we’re incinerated.

这意味着如果核弹头爆炸，我们就会被焚毁。

I said “Little Rock’s gone, Little Rock is gone.

我说：“小石城不见了，小石城不见了。

We’re forty six miles from this site, we’re gone.” I walked into our living room and looked out the front window and it was still daylight savings time so it wasn’t totally dark and you could see children in the front yard or people walking out to their cars, carrying on their normal everyday lives, and I thought do I run out on the street and say we’ve got a potential nuclear explosion 46 miles from here?

我们距离这个地点有四十六英里，我们已经走了。”我走进客厅，往前窗望去，当时还是夏令时，所以天还没有完全黑，你可以看到前院里的孩子们，或者人们走向他们的汽车，继续着他们正常的日常生活，我想我是否应该跑到街上说距这里 46 英里处可能发生核爆炸？

Do I grab my friends and neighbors and get in the car and start driving?

我会拉上我的朋友和邻居并上车并开始驾驶吗？

What do you do?

你做什么工作？

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参议员。

David Pryor, (D) Arkansas: I was there in Hot Springs that night and the phone rang and it was Skip.

大卫·普赖尔（David Pryor），（D）阿肯色州：那天晚上我在温泉城，电话响了，是斯基普打来的。

And Skip says, we have a problem.

斯基普说，我们遇到了问题。

Skip Rutherford, Aide to Senator David Pryor: He said “what’s the air force saying?” I said “the air force is telling people it’s not happening, that’s what they’ve told the people on the site.

斯基普·卢瑟福，参议员大卫·普赖尔的助手：他说“空军在说什么？”我说：“空军告诉人们这件事没有发生，这就是他们在网站上告诉人们的。

They’re going to tell you that these things are under control.

他们会告诉你这些事情都在控制之中。

But I think you need to be prepared for an explosion.”

但我认为你需要为爆炸做好准备。”

Sid King, Manager, KGFL Radio: As the general manager of the radio station in Clinton, we were doing quite a bit of local news and you realize in a small town that you needed to have a police scanner because everything comes off of it.

Sid King，KGFL 广播电台经理：作为克林顿广播电台的总经理，我们做了很多当地新闻，你会意识到在一个小镇上你需要一台警察扫描仪，因为一切都来自它。

And the person said we’ve got a chemical leak at the Titan II missile silo.

那人说我们的泰坦二号导弹发射井发生了化学泄漏。

We get there about the same time the sheriff is getting there, Gus Anglin.

我们到达那里的时间与治安官格斯·安格林 (Gus Anglin) 到达的时间差不多。

This is Gus Anglin, he was the sheriff of Van Buren County, very popular sheriff by the way.

这是格斯·安格林，他是范布伦县的警长，顺便说一句，是一位非常受欢迎的警长。

And so we decide to walk down the narrow road that goes down to the silo.

所以我们决定沿着狭窄的道路走下去，一直到筒仓。

And when you get down there there’s like this ten foot tall chain link fencing with barbed wire around the top of it.

当你到达那里时，就会看到这个十英尺高的铁丝网围栏，顶部有铁丝网。

Out of nowhere, here comes two guys with M-16 rifles.

不知从哪里冒出来两个拿着 M-16 步枪的家伙。

Gus says “do I need to start evacuating?” “Oh no sir, no sir, we’ve got it under control I assure you.” So we went back to the edge of the road, which was just of highway 65.

格斯说：“我需要开始撤离吗？” “哦，不，先生，不，先生，我们已经控制住了，我向你保证。”于是我们又回到了路边，也就是65号高速公路的边缘。

ARC (TV Broadcaster): This is as close as the military will allow us to get…

ARC（电视广播公司）：这已经是军方允许我们达到的最接近的距离了……

Sid King, Manager, KGFL Radio: So here comes Channel 4, here comes Channel 11.

Sid King，KGFL 广播电台经理：第 4 频道来了，第 11 频道来了。

Before you know it, we’ve got about 25 people out there.

不知不觉中，我们已经有大约 25 个人了。

They ignored us.

他们无视我们。

We’d yell at them as they came by, “hey, is everything under control?” You know, have you fixed it yet?

当他们经过时，我们会对他们大喊：“嘿，一切都在掌控之中吗？”你知道吗，你修好了吗？

And they’d just keep driving.

他们只会继续开车。

They wouldn’t even acknowledge you existed.

他们甚至不承认你的存在。

Sam Hutto, Dairy Farmer: Sheriff Gus Anglin, he didn’t get the information he thought he needed from them to make really good decisions, and finally he just went to running everybody off when they were evacuating.

山姆·赫托（Sam Hutto），奶农：格斯·安格林警长，他没有从他们那里得到他认为需要做出正确决定的信息，最后他只是在所有人撤离时赶走了他们。

He said you know “I don’t know how bad it’s gonna be or anything else, get out of here right now and then we’ll get you back in quick as we can.”

他说你知道“我不知道会有多糟糕或其他什么，现在就离开这里，然后我们会尽快让你回来。”

Sam Hutto, Dairy Farmer: They had roadblocks set up back 2 miles from it diverting traffic around the area.

Sam Hutto，奶农：他们在距其 2 英里的地方设置了路障，以疏导该地区周围的交通。

I had a problem that 9 months before that happened, I had synchronized a bunch of heifers, which means you give them a shot of Lutalyse and they all come into heat at the same time.

我遇到了一个问题，在那件事发生前 9 个月，我同步了一群小母牛，这意味着你给它们注射 Lutalyse，它们都会同时发情。

You breed them all at the same time, which means they’re also all gonna calve at the same time.

你同时繁殖它们，这意味着它们也会同时产犊。

Well, their due date was that day.

嗯，他们的预产期就是那天。

We would have lost the farm, everything we had, you know if them cows got sick and died.

如果牛生病死了，我们就会失去农场，失去我们拥有的一切。

So, we were going back in.

所以，我们要回去了。

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John Moser, Commander, 308th Strategic Missile Wing: We finally made the decision to evacuate the crew because when the missile explodes, if it does explode, you’re risking life of the four crew members on site.

约翰·莫泽，第 308 战略导弹联队指挥官：我们最终决定疏散机组人员，因为当导弹爆炸时，如果它真的爆炸，现场四名机组人员的生命就会受到威胁。

So we thought the best avenue was to take the crew out of the control center.

所以我们认为最好的办法是将机组人员带出控制中心。

Allan Childers, Missile Combat Crew: Mike said we’re gonna have to evacuate.

艾伦·奇尔德斯（Allan Childers），导弹战斗人员：迈克说我们必须撤离。

It was one of the hardest things I think anybody could do because you were responsible for a nuclear weapon that was capable of destroying an unbelievable amount of territory and an unbelievable number of people, and you were leaving it behind.

我认为这是任何人都可以做的最困难的事情之一，因为你要对核武器负责，它能够摧毁令人难以置信的大片领土和令人难以置信的人数，而你却把它抛在了身后。

Nobody left it before, nobody would leave a nuclear warhead.

以前没有人留下它，没有人会留下核弹头。

And the whole time I was leaving I kept thinking, I need to stay, I should have stayed.

在我离开的整个过程中，我一直在想，我需要留下来，我应该留下来。

I look back on it now I still can’t believe we left it empty.

现在回想起来，我仍然不敢相信我们把它留空了。

We had all these classified checklists.

我们有所有这些分类清单。

Nobody had ever tried to put them in a safe before, they wouldn’t fit, so we left all of them in the safe with the door open.

以前没有人尝试过将它们放入保险箱中，因为它们放不下，所以我们把它们全部放在保险箱里，门开着。

Allan Childers, Missile Combat Crew: We thought we’re going to go out the regular way, we’ll open a door up.

艾伦·奇尔德斯（Allan Childers），导弹战斗人员：我们以为我们会按照常规方式出去，我们会打开一扇门。

Rodney Holder, Missile Combat Crew: As we started to open the blast door, we immediately saw vapor.

罗德尼·霍尔德（Rodney Holder），导弹战斗人员：当我们开始打开防爆门时，我们立即看到了蒸汽。

Once we closed that door, that cut off our main escape route.

一旦我们关上那扇门，我们的主要逃生路线就被切断了。

We were instructed to evacuate through the emergency escape hatch, which we had never actually fully opened.

我们被指示通过紧急逃生舱口撤离，但我们实际上从未完全打开过该舱口。

Allan Childers, Missile Combat Crew: It was just a metal tube with a ladder in it, buried a good 40 feet underground.

Allan Childers，导弹战斗人员：它只是一根金属管，里面有一个梯子，埋在地下 40 英尺深。

There’s a light at the top, and it’s supposed to shine down into the escape route.

顶部有一盏灯，它应该照到逃生路线上。

And it didn’t come on, it wasn’t working.

但它没有出现，也不起作用。

Nothing was working.

什么都不起作用。

Allan Childers, Missile Combat Crew: It was a hell of a thing to climb up five stories in the dark with this mask on, and you couldn’t breathe, and it filled up with vapors and you couldn’t see anything.

艾伦·奇尔德斯（Allan Childers），导弹战斗人员：戴着这个面罩在黑暗中爬上五层楼是一件地狱般的事情，你无法呼吸，里面充满了蒸汽，你什么也看不见。

We knew there was very little wind that night, and all of the vapors that were being evacuated out of the launch duct were settling over the site.

我们知道那天晚上风很小，从发射管道中排出的所有蒸汽都沉淀在现场。

James Sandaker, PTS Team: I was at home with my wife and kid, and I got a call from job control, and they said they had a problem out at 4-7.

James Sandaker，PTS 团队：我当时和妻子孩子在家，接到工作控制中心的电话，他们说 4 点到 7 点出了问题。

Greg Devlin, PTS Team: They told everybody here, this is a very dangerous situation, we don’t know what’s going to happen, this is a purely voluntary mission only, and if you don’t want go you don’t have to go.

Greg Devlin，PTS 团队：他们告诉这里的每个人，这是一个非常危险的情况，我们不知道会发生什么，这只是一个纯粹的自愿任务，如果你不想去，你就不必去。

The PTS group, it was like a brotherhood.

PTS团体，就像兄弟情谊。

There’s no question that we weren’t going to be the team that was going out there.

毫无疑问，我们不会成为那支走出去的球队。

Dave Livingston was one of the guys and he was sitting in the back seat and he said to me, somebody’s going to die out here tonight, I just feel it.

戴夫·利文斯顿（Dave Livingston）是其中之一，他坐在后座上，他对我说，今晚有人会死在这里，我只是感觉到了。

And I said, Dave don’t say something like that man, don’t even say it.

我说，戴夫不要说那样的话，甚至不要说。

And he goes, no I got a bad vibe man, somebody’s going to die out here, man.

他说，不，我的气氛很糟糕，伙计，有人会死在这里，伙计。

Rodney Holder, Missile Combat Crew: We know at this point that there’s a helicopter on the way and Jeff Kennedy was on there.

导弹战斗人员罗德尼·霍尔德：我们现在知道有一架直升机正在路上，杰夫·肯尼迪就在那里。

He was one of the best, if not the best team chief in the wing.

他是边路最好的队长之一，即使不是最好的队长。

Dave Powell, PTS Team: Jeff Kennedy was the kind of guy that, he would never ask you to do anything he wouldn’t do himself.

戴夫·鲍威尔（Dave Powell），PTS 团队：杰夫·肯尼迪是那种人，他永远不会要求你做他自己不会做的事情。

Voice of Sgt.

中士的声音。

Jeff Kennedy: When I got out on site, Powell came running up to me and said, “Jeff, I fucked up like you wouldn’t believe.” I know that I need to get the tank readings to find out how serious the leak is.

杰夫·肯尼迪：当我走出现场时，鲍威尔跑过来对我说：“杰夫，我搞砸了，你简直不敢相信。”我知道我需要获取水箱读数才能了解泄漏的严重程度。

Dave Powell, PTS Team: Jeff thought, the longer we wait, the more dangerous it gets.

戴夫·鲍威尔 (Dave Powell)，PTS 团队：杰夫认为，我们等待的时间越长，就越危险。

What Jeff didn’t tell anybody was, we’re going to go down into that silo and look at those pressures.

杰夫没有告诉任何人的是，我们将进入那个筒仓并研究这些压力。

So, we run across the silo to the escape hatch.

所以，我们穿过筒仓来到逃生舱口。

Kennedy goes into the tube first, I follow him in, and all of a sudden he looks up at me and he says, stay here.

肯尼迪先进入地铁，我跟着他进去，突然他抬头看着我，说，留在这儿。

He violated the most sacred rule in SAC, which is the two man rule.

他违反了SAC最神圣的规则，那就是两人规则。

Nobody goes to certain parts of the silo without being accompanied by another person.

没有人会在没有其他人陪同的情况下进入筒仓的某些部分。

But he felt like that he could get in and out quicker if he went by himself.

但他觉得自己一个人去的话，可以更快地进出。

Voice of Sgt.

中士的声音。

Jeff Kennedy: Stage 1 fuel was now at a negative imbalance.

杰夫·肯尼迪：第一阶段燃料现在处于负不平衡状态。

There’s 14,000 gallons of fuel that have leaked out of the tank.

有 14,000 加仑的燃油从油箱中泄漏。

so now we have less than 30 pounds of pressure before stage 1 oxidizer blows.

所以现在在第一阶段氧化剂爆炸之前我们的压力低于 30 磅。

Dave Powell, PTS Team: Kennedy shows the readings that he just got and says we still had time to save it, but we had to move.

戴夫·鲍威尔 (Dave Powell)，PTS 团队：肯尼迪展示了他刚刚获得的读数，并说我们还有时间保存它，但我们必须采取行动。

We had to move now.

我们现在必须搬家了。

Allan Childers, Missile Combat Crew: The commander was furious that he had violated the two man policy by going down there and didn’t even have a crew member with him, just on his own.

艾伦·奇尔德斯（Allan Childers），导弹战斗人员：指挥官非常愤怒，因为他独自一人前往那里，违反了两人政策。

He violated everything.

他违反了一切。

Voice of Sgt.

中士的声音。

Jeff Kennedy: Fifteen minutes later, SAC headquarters relieves us of all command decision making.

杰夫·肯尼迪：十五分钟后，SAC 总部解除了我们所有的指挥决策权。

Now here’s SAC headquarters that has never stepped foot on a complex, That just pissed me off.

现在这里是SAC总部，从来没有踏足过建筑群，这让我很生气。

Col.

上校

Ben Scallorn Deputy Chief of Staff For Missiles, 8th Air Force: Time was of the essence if we were going to accomplish anything.

本·斯卡隆 (Ben Scallorn) 第 8 空军导弹副参谋长：如果我们要完成任何事情，时间至关重要。

Every minute that passed by we were further, simply because we’re dumping more fuel, and everything is getting worse.

每过去一分钟，我们就走得更远，仅仅因为我们倾倒了更多的燃料，一切都变得更糟。

Rodney Holder, Missile Combat Crew: People started showing up from base.

罗德尼·霍尔德，导弹战斗人员：人们开始从基地出现。

Communications, portable vapor detectors, they were bringing all kinds of maintenance equipment.

通讯、便携式蒸汽探测器，他们带来了各种维护设备。

Sid King, Manager, KGFL Radio: You think all these experts must be coming in to work on this thing.

Sid King，KGFL Radio 经理：你认为所有这些专家一定都会来从事这件事。

Then I see this bus come in.

然后我看到这辆公共汽车进来了。

And here are these about 10 guys, and they start putting on what looks like space outfits and you’re looking at these and you’re thinking I’m 24 years old and they’re all younger than me, and these guys are the experts that are going to go in there and fix this?

这里有大约 10 个家伙，他们开始穿上看起来像太空服的东西，你看着这些，你会想我已经 24 岁了，他们都比我年轻，而这些人是要去那里解决这个问题的专家吗？

All I saw were just young guys that were being thrown to the lions.

我所看到的只是被扔给狮子的年轻人。

Greg Devlin, PTS Team: One of the hard things for us was it seemed like we were waiting, and waiting and waiting for some decision to be made at SAC as specifically what to do, so the time frame of like, man you know, whatever we’re going to do let’s do it.

Greg Devlin，PTS 团队：对我们来说，困难的事情之一是我们似乎在等待，等待，等待 SAC 做出具体要做什么的决定，所以时间框架就像，伙计，你知道，无论我们要做什么，我们就去做吧。

Col.

上校

John Moser, Commander, 308th Strategic Missile Wing: The SAC command center finally decided that we had to know what the status was in the silo if we could get back in.

约翰·莫泽，第 308 战略导弹联队指挥官：SAC 指挥中心最终决定，如果我们能够返回发射井，我们必须知道发射井的状态。

What they considered the best alternative, was go back in and check pressures.

他们认为最好的选择是回去检查压力。

Greg Devlin, PTS Team: When we find out what the plan is, we have to break into a nuclear missile complex, which has never been done before in history.

Greg Devlin，PTS 团队：当我们弄清楚计划是什么时，我们必须闯入核导弹综合体，这在历史上从未做过。

Allan Childers, Missile Combat Crew: If we had stayed in the control center we could have opened every door they had to break their way in.

艾伦·奇尔德斯（Allan Childers），导弹战斗人员：如果我们留在控制中心，我们就可以打开他们闯入的每一扇门。

Rodney Holder, Missile Combat Crew: The plan was to go down and go through the blast doors, get into the control center.

罗德尼·霍尔德，导弹战斗人员：计划是下降并穿过防爆门，进入控制中心。

And depending on the fuel and oxidizer readings, they wanted to get to the missile itself.

根据燃料和氧化剂的读数，他们想要了解导弹本身。

open up a valve, to vent that tank so it would stabilize and not collapse.

打开阀门，给水箱排气，这样它就能稳定下来，不会倒塌。

Voice of Sgt.

中士的声音。

Jeff Kennedy:: It’s absolute, total bullshit.

杰夫·肯尼迪：这绝对是胡说八道。

You know I said “colonel, why don’t we just go down the escape hatch?” “Kennedy, this plan has come down, it’s the plan we’re going to go with, that’s it.”

你知道我说“上校，我们为什么不直接从逃生舱口下去呢？” “肯尼迪，这个计划已经下来了，这就是我们要遵循的计划，就这样。”

Dave Powell, PTS Team: Jeff thought the plan was nuts.

戴夫·鲍威尔 (Dave Powell)，PTS 团队：杰夫认为这个计划很疯狂。

But on the other hand, you’re, this is what you do, you’re a PTS guy, this is the plan that came down and you suck it up and you do it.

但另一方面，这就是你所做的，你是一名 PTS 人员，这是制定下来的计划，你忍住了，然后就去做了。

Col.

上校

John Moser, Commander, 308th Strategic Missile Wing: We were directed to ask for volunteers to go back in.

约翰·莫泽，第 308 战略导弹联队指挥官：我们接到指示要求志愿者返回。

I personally wasn’t in favor of sending anybody else in, after all the time.

毕竟，我个人一直不赞成派其他人进来。

It was the wee hours of the morning, this had been going on for many hours at this point, probably 8 hours.

当时是凌晨，这种情况已经持续了好几个小时，大概有 8 个小时。

But I guess you go back and say as a good soldier, your boss says do this and you eventually do it.

但我想你回去后会说，作为一名好士兵，你的老板让你这样做，你最终也会这样做。

And we had enough brave souls to volunteer to go back in the silo.

我们有足够勇敢的灵魂自愿回到筒仓。

Greg Devlin, PTS Team: Rex Hukle and I were the first guys to go in.

Greg Devlin，PTS 团队：Rex Hukle 和我是第一批进去的人。

They said, you only have 30 minutes of air.

他们说，你只有30分钟的空气。

There is no crew down there, the crew is already evacuated, so they said you’re going to have to cut and break your way into this missile complex.

那里没有船员，船员已经撤离，所以他们说你必须开辟并闯入这个导弹综合体。

Col.

上校

Ben Scallorn Deputy Chief of Staff For Missiles, 8th Air Force: When they got to the exhaust duct they took a reading and the meter pegged out, which is 250 parts per million.

本·斯卡伦 (Ben Scallorn) 第 8 空军导弹副参谋长：当他们到达排气管时，他们进行了读数，仪表上的读数是百万分之 250。

Rodney Holder, Missile Combat Crew: 250 parts per million is when the vapor is in such a high concentration it could start to melt the RFHCO suits.

Rodney Holder，导弹战斗人员：百万分之 250 是当蒸汽浓度如此高时，RFHCO 防护服可能会开始融化。

Almost anything could cause it to ignite.

几乎任何东西都可能导致它着火。

Col.

上校

Ben Scallorn Deputy Chief of Staff For Missiles, 8th Air Force: General Leavitt directed them to press on.

第 8 空军导弹副参谋长本·斯卡伦：莱维特将军指示他们继续前进。

I knew it was the wrong thing to do.

我知道这是错误的做法。

Whatever was going to happen was not going to be good.

无论发生什么，都不会是好事。

Greg Devlin, PTS Team: We got to the portal door and used bolt cutters and a great big crowbar to pry open the main lock and then go down three levels of steps to get to your first 6000 pound blast lock door with great big hydraulic pins that lock it in place.

Greg Devlin，PTS 团队：我们到达门户门，使用断线钳和大撬棍撬开主锁，然后走下三层台阶，到达您的第一个 6000 磅防爆锁门，用巨大的液压销钉将其锁定到位。

we were getting close to the 30 minutes of air and then they said, you guys got it hooked up, come on back, we’re going to send Kennedy and Livingston in to replace you.

我们快要播出 30 分钟了，然后他们说，你们已经搞定了，回来吧，我们将派肯尼迪和利文斯顿来接替你们。

Col.

上校

John Moser, Commander, 308th Strategic Missile Wing: Those guys were brave.

约翰·莫泽，第 308 战略导弹联队指挥官：那些家伙很勇敢。

They knew what they were getting into when they went back in on the underground.

当他们回到地下时，他们知道自己会遇到什么。

What could happen to them.

他们会发生什么。

Rodney Holder, Missile Combat Crew: I was sitting in a security police vehicle listening and hearing what’s going on.

罗德尼·霍尔德（Rodney Holder），导弹战斗人员：我坐在一辆安全警车里，听着发生了什么。

The next team went in, which was going to be Kennedy and Livingston.

下一支球队进去了，是肯尼迪和利文斯顿。

Rodney Holder, Missile Combat Crew: They’re relaying the information that they’ve opened the blast door.

导弹战斗人员罗德尼·霍尔德：他们正在传达已打开防爆门的信息。

Voice of Sgt.

中士的声音。

Jeff Kennedy: When we went into the blast lock area, there’s 8 lights bright as hell.

杰夫·肯尼迪：当我们进入防爆锁区域时，有 8 盏灯亮得要命。

I’m less than ten feet away from it and I can’t even see it.

我距离它不到十英尺，但我什至看不到它。

Rodney Holder, Missile Combat Crew: So they immediately evacuated, and started topside.

罗德尼·霍尔德（Rodney Holder），导弹战斗人员：所以他们立即撤离，并开始上层。

Voice of Sgt.

中士的声音。

Jeff Kennedy: I had got topside and now we get a command from the team chief to go down and turn on an exhaust fan.

杰夫·肯尼迪：我已经到了上部，现在我们接到队长的命令，要下去并打开排气扇。

Livingston taps himself on the chest, and he went down.

利文斯顿拍了拍自己的胸口，然后就倒下了。

Rodney Holder, Missile Combat Crew: After that, within seconds, I saw the explosion.

罗德尼·霍尔德（Rodney Holder），导弹战斗人员：在那之后，几秒钟之内，我看到了爆炸。

Col.

上校

John Moser, Commander, 308th Strategic Missile Wing: All of a sudden, I lost all communications.

约翰·莫泽，第 308 战略导弹联队指挥官：突然之间，我失去了所有通讯。

Everything you ever read or heard about a nuclear explosion, all communications were lost until things settled out and that’s the first thing I ever, that’s that’s the first thing that entered my mind.

你读过或听到的有关核爆炸的所有信息，所有通讯都丢失了，直到事情解决为止，这是我的第一件事，这是进入我脑海的第一件事。

That we had a nuclear explosion out there, and we may have a shock wave coming into Little Rock Air Force Base and all the surrounding communities, and that that’s the first thing I thought about.

我们那里发生了核爆炸，我们可能会有冲击波进入小石城空军基地和所有周边社区，这是我想到的第一件事。

And all the people would be dead out there on site of course and I just, it was unimaginable what was going through my mind.

当然，所有的人都会死在现场，而我只是，难以想象我脑子里在想什么。

It was almost like you wanted to get down on your knees and pray to the higher power to protect everybody.

这几乎就像你想跪下来祈祷更高的力量来保护每个人。

Sam Hutto, Dairy Farmer: About 3 o’clock in the morning, I decided, well might as well go milk.

Sam Hutto，奶农：凌晨 3 点左右，我决定，还是去喝牛奶吧。

And just before I got to the roadblock, you drop off a hill on highway 65 there’s a spot that you can see the ground at the missile base.

就在我到达路障之前，你在 65 号高速公路上的一座小山上下车，那里有一个地方可以看到导弹基地的地面。

Just as I got to that spot, it blew.

当我到达那个地方时，它就爆炸了。

You felt it more than you saw it.

你感受到的比你看到的更多。

I mean, I was a mile and three quarters, two miles away from it, and it almost shook my truck off the road.

我的意思是，我距离它一又四分之三英里，两英里，它几乎把我的卡车从路上摇下来。

Sid King, Manager, KGFL Radio: I was sitting on the hood of Gus’s sheriff’s car just kind of sitting there and had on slip on shoes and was kicking one off and on, then all of a sudden it was just Kawhoom!

Sid King，KGFL 广播电台经理：我坐在 Gus 治安官的汽车引擎盖上，穿着一双拖鞋，踢了又踢，然后突然间就响起了 Kawhoom 的声音！

Sid King, Manager, KGFL Radio: Everybody was running as hard as they could to get out of there because we may be living our last few minutes.

Sid King，KGFL 电台经理：每个人都在竭尽全力地逃离那里，因为我们可能还活着最后几分钟。

I thought when I jumped in my car and drove as hard as I could that I was probably outrunning a nuclear blast you know.

我想，当我跳进车里并尽我所能地开车时，我可能会躲过核爆炸，你知道。

I thought, this Dodge Omni is going to outrun this thing.

我想，这辆道奇 Omni 会超越这个东西。

Allan Childers, Missile Combat Crew: The sky just lit up.

艾伦·奇尔德斯（Allan Childers），导弹战斗人员：天空刚刚亮起来。

It really looked like the sun was coming up which is why our initial reaction was, the nuclear bomb went off, the nuclear warhead exploded.

看起来真的像太阳正在升起，这就是为什么我们最初的反应是，核弹爆炸了，核弹头爆炸了。

Allan Childers, Missile Combat Crew: So much gravel and rocks were coming down it was smashing windshields and putting holes in trucks, I was literally trying to crawl underneath a truck and it started to move and I crawled out again real fast and somebody drove it off.

艾伦·奇尔德斯（Allan Childers），导弹战斗人员：大量的砾石和岩石掉落下来，挡风玻璃被打碎，卡车上出现了洞，我真的想爬到一辆卡车下面，它开始移动，我很快又爬了出来，有人把它开走了。

The stuff stopped falling, but there was flames everywhere and you could hear this roar and you looked down there you could see this steam and fire coming out of the complex.

这些东西不再掉落，但到处都是火焰，你可以听到这种轰鸣声，你往下看，你可以看到蒸汽和火焰从建筑群中冒出来。

Greg Devlin, PTS Team: All I know is the first thing to hit me was wind, it was like Boom!

Greg Devlin，PTS 团队：我只知道第一个袭击我的是风，就像轰隆隆！

Just like a concussion man, it was like Bang!

就像一个脑震荡的人一样，就像砰！

And you’re blown backwards, you have no control over anything.

你被吹倒了，你无法控制任何事情。

As I was sliding on my back, burning going up the street, my left eye opened and I could see glowing steel blowing past me, and in my heart I said, it’s over, you’re not going to live through this.

当我仰面滑行，沿着街道燃烧时，我的左眼睁开，我可以看到发光的钢铁从我身边吹过，我在心里说，结束了，你不会经历这一切。

You know, I just hope it’s not painful.

你知道，我只是希望这不会痛苦。

I got up and took off running, I got five steps away, and a chunk of concrete bigger than a school bus hits the ground right behind me, and it’s got steel rebar hanging out of it.

我起身就跑，跑了五步，一块比校车还大的混凝土就落在我身后的地上，上面还挂着钢筋。

As I’m running, I feel this whack hit my ankle and just shatters my ankle.

当我跑步时，我感觉这一击击中了我的脚踝，并且直接打碎了我的脚踝。

The next step I took I just buckled and went down.

我采取的下一步只是屈服并倒下了。

That’s when I started to realize that my face and neck and back were all on fire.

就在那时我开始意识到我的脸、脖子和背部都在燃烧。

Allan Childers, Missile Combat Crew: I was picking people up and carrying them up the road trying to get them away from the debris.

艾伦·奇尔德斯（Allan Childers），导弹战斗人员：我当时正在救人并把他们抬到路上，试图让他们远离废墟。

All you heard was evacuate, evacuate, evacuate.

你听到的只是疏散、疏散、疏散。

Air Force Colonel said, “the other two are on the site, they have to be dead.” And we looked down at the site and said “I’m with you Colonel, they have to be dead.” I got into the last truck that was there with a bunch of hurt guys, and I said, let’s go.

空军上校说：“另外两人也在现场，他们肯定已经死了。”我们低头看着现场，说道：“我支持你，上校，他们一定已经死了。”我上了最后一辆卡车，车上载着一群受伤的人，我说，我们走吧。

ARC Radio (with subtitles): Roger the entire area has been evacuated.

ARC 广播电台（带字幕）：请注意，整个地区已被疏散。

Voice of Sgt.

中士的声音。

Jeff Kennedy: As soon as it blew, I remember being flipped ass over tea kettle.

杰夫·肯尼迪：风一吹，我就记得我的屁股被茶壶翻倒了。

When I woke up, I was laying on my back, my legs were up against the complex fence.

当我醒来时，我仰面躺着，双腿靠在复杂的栅栏上。

I was screaming and crying.

我尖叫着哭泣。

There was nobody there.

那里没有人。

You only had yourself.

你只有你自己。

You know, the pain I had to deal with was trivial to the fact that I wanted to live, I wanted to survive, I mean I thought of my kids, my wife.

你知道，我必须面对的痛苦对于我想要生活、我想要生存这一事实来说是微不足道的，我的意思是我想到了我的孩子、我的妻子。

I said, I am not going to die in this complex.

我说过，我不会死在这个建筑群里。

I went to stand up, and I fell right down, my leg was broken.

我想站起来，结果摔倒了，腿摔断了。

I fell down four, five times, get back up.

我摔倒了四、五次，然后再爬起来。

All the time that I’m walking I can hear Livingston, “oh my god help me, please, somebody help me.” Because of my leg being broken I determined that I could not get him.

在我走路的过程中，我都能听到利文斯顿的声音：“天哪，请帮助我，请有人帮助我。”因为我的腿断了，所以我决定不能去找他。

This is something that I fought with for eons.

这是我与之斗争了亿万年的事情。

If Livingston had of known that I was there, would that have been enough of an adrenaline rush to know somebody’s got to get some help.

如果利文斯顿知道我在那里，他会感到肾上腺素激增，知道有人需要寻求帮助。

Off the complex was a truck.

大楼外停着一辆卡车。

I had to make it from one end of the complex to the other.

我必须从建筑群的一端到达另一端。

When I get to the truck, and I radioed for help, the truck went dead.

当我到达卡车旁并用无线电求救时，卡车熄火了。

James Sandaker, PTS Team: On my way back to the missile site I could hear Kennedy on the radio in the truck.

詹姆斯·桑克 (James Sandaker)，PTS 团队：在返回导弹基地的路上，我听到卡车上的收音机里传来肯尼迪的声音。

ARC (Kennedy): Help!

ARC（肯尼迪）：救命！

Help me!

帮我！

Help me!

帮我！

Can anybody read me?

有人能读懂我吗？

James Sandaker, PTS Team: And I headed down the road as fast as I could get that truck to go.

James Sandaker，PTS 团队：我以最快的速度沿着道路行驶，让卡车开走。

I got part way there and two security policemen were in the road and they waved me down.

我走到一半时，路上有两名安全警察，他们挥手让我下去。

And he told us to evacuate and not go down there.

他告诉我们要撤离，不要下去那里。

And I said, “screw you our friends are down there, we’re going.”

我说：“管你的，我们的朋友就在那儿，我们走了。”

James Sandaker, PTS Team: When I got back to the missile site, I saw Kennedy.

詹姆斯·桑克 (James Sandaker)，PTS 团队：当我回到导弹发射场时，我看到了肯尼迪。

He was burnt and he had a hole in his leg the size of your fist.

他被烧伤了，腿上有一个拳头大小的洞。

He was really hurt bad, and he told me to go find Livingston.

他真的很受伤，他让我去找利文斯顿。

We put our helmets on, and we went onto the site.

我们戴上头盔，来到现场。

It was like another world.

这就像另一个世界。

Ordinance guys had told us that the warhead was full of plastic explosives that could be laying all over the ground, so somehow we were not supposed to step on them.

条例人员告诉我们，弹头里装满了塑料炸药，可能散落在地上，所以我们不应该踩到它们。

There was giant chunks of concrete blasted all over that looked like the size of semi trucks.

到处都是巨大的混凝土块，看起来就像半卡车大小。

There’s a strange glow coming out of where the silo used to be.

筒仓原来所在的地方发出奇怪的光芒。

And when we got back to the truck, they had already found Livingston, and I was angry because they didn’t have an ambulance.

当我们回到卡车上时，他们已经找到了利文斯顿，我很生气，因为他们没有救护车。

I put him in the back of a pick up truck and we…I held him.

我把他放在一辆皮卡车的后面，我们……我抱着他。

He begged me not to tell his mother, like he had done something wrong.

他求我不要告诉他妈妈，就像他做错了什么一样。

Greg Devlin, PTS Team: When we arrived at the hospital, I was hyperventilating because the burn pain was so great.

Greg Devlin，PTS 团队：当我们到达医院时，我呼吸过度，因为烧伤疼痛非常严重。

I had a nurse tell me, “if you don’t calm down, you’re going to pass out.” And I couldn’t calm down, I was on fire, I felt like I was on fire.

一位护士告诉我，“如果你不冷静下来，你就会昏倒。”我无法平静下来，我着火了，我感觉自己着火了。

Dave Powell, PTS Team: I went to the hospital that Kennedy and, and Livingston went to.

戴夫·鲍威尔 (Dave Powell)，PTS 团队：我去了肯尼迪和利文斯顿去过的医院。

And we were there for a few hours, I think.

我想我们在那里呆了几个小时。

And then the doctor comes out and informs us that David Livingston had passed away and that Kennedy was like hanging by a thread.

然后医生出来告诉我们大卫·利文斯顿去世了，肯尼迪命悬一线。

You just keep replaying things in your head.

你只是不断地在脑子里回放事情。

What if I did this?

如果我这样做怎么办？

What if I did that?

如果我这么做了怎么办？

The ifs and buts.

如果和但是。

You know, and you just keep replaying it.

你知道，你只是不断地重播它。

Jeffrey Plumb, PTS Team: Dave Powell was a lot closer to David Livingston than most people knew.

Jeffrey Plumb，PTS 团队：戴夫·鲍威尔 (Dave Powell) 与大卫·利文斯顿 (David Livingston) 的关系比大多数人想象的要密切得多。

I remember looking over when I was at the funeral, and I remember Powell just weeping.

我记得参加葬礼时我看过，鲍威尔只是哭了。

He feels responsible for the death of David, he really does, he felt responsible for the death of his friend.

他觉得自己对大卫的死负有责任，他确实如此，他觉得自己对他朋友的死负有责任。

Voice of Sgt.

中士的声音。

Jeff Kennedy: As soon as I found out Livingston died, I, I wanted nothing more to do with the Air Force.

杰夫·肯尼迪：当我发现利文斯顿去世后，我不想再与空军有任何关系。

We were in the hospital two days before, before a single, solitary Air Force personnel were out at that hospital.

两天前，我们在医院里，当时只有一名空军人员离开该医院。

Greg Devlin, PTS Team: They came in every 8 hours on my face, neck, and back, and they used a scrub pad, it was like a brillow pad and they scrubbed all the skin, the dead skin, off so that the new skin would grow back.

Greg Devlin，PTS 团队：他们每 8 小时来一次我的脸部、颈部和背部，他们使用擦洗垫，就像一个布里洛垫，他们擦洗所有皮肤，死皮，以便新皮肤重新长出来。

Oh the scrubbing was immensely painful.

哦，擦洗真是太痛苦了。

The Air Force was in a really big hurry to get me back to the base so that no one could get to us, there could be no interviews and you would not be speaking to the press.

空军非常急切地让我回到基地，这样就没有人能找到我们，就不会接受采访，也不会接受媒体采访。

Skip Rutherford Aide to Senator David Pryor: Phone rang about 3:30 with a call from one of the airman that said, “it just blew.” The first thing I did was look around and say, I’m alive, we’re alive, my family’s alive, neighborhood’s alive.

跳过卢瑟福助手对参议员大卫·普赖尔说：3点30分左右，电话响了，其中一名飞行员打来电话说：“刚刚爆炸了。”我做的第一件事就是环顾四周并说，我还活着，我们还活着，我的家人还活着，邻居还活着。

And my response was, where’s the warhead?

我的回答是，弹头在哪里？

And the person said, we don’t know.

那人说，我们不知道。

Sid King, Manager, KGFL Radio: When you were trying to talk to the Air Force to find out, is there a nuclear warhead?

Sid King，KGFL 电台经理：当您试图与空军交谈以查明是否存在核弹头时？

Was one involved?

有人参与其中吗？

Did you find it?

你找到了吗？

Was it, you know, what condition was it in?

你知道当时是什么情况吗？

Had it burst open?

它爆开了吗？

Was there uranium spread all over the, the area?

整个地区都散布着铀吗？

They would not admit that there was even a nuclear warhead.

他们甚至不承认有核弹头。

Col.

上校

John Moser, Commander, 308th Strategic Missile Wing: We could not tell the local populace or any of the political or law enforcement people that we had a warhead on the missile.

约翰·莫泽，第 308 战略导弹联队指挥官：我们无法告诉当地民众或任何政治或执法人员我们的导弹上装有弹头。

That was, we could not confirm nor deny that we had a nuclear weapon onsite, and that was SAC and national policy at that time.

也就是说，我们无法确认或否认我们现场有核武器，这就是国家安全委员会和当时的国家政策。

Col.

上校

John Moser, Commander, 308th Strategic Missile Wing: My personal feeling was that it was a ridiculous policy, but nevertheless we had to live with it.

约翰·莫泽，第 308 战略导弹联队指挥官：我个人的感觉是，这是一项荒谬的政策，但我们不得不忍受它。

ARC (news reporter): Sherriff, has the Air Force told you very much?

ARC（新闻记者）：警长，空军告诉了你很多事情吗？

Sid King, Manager, KGFL Radio: So they wouldn’t tell us anything, but one of the local merchants in town found the air force frequencies.

Sid King，KGFL 电台经理：所以他们不会告诉我们任何事情，但镇上的一位当地商人发现了空军频率。

ARC (Air Force Radio): Could you give us a status on those EOD and disaster preparedness people?

ARC（空军电台）：您能否向我们介绍一下这些排爆和备灾人员的状况？

Still walking up the hill.

依然在上山行走。

Sid King, Manager, KGFL Radio: They know that you’re listening to them.

Sid King，KGFL 广播电台经理：他们知道您在听他们的节目。

And they said, “be real evasive about what you talk about.” They keep on talking about “we cannot find it, we cannot find the unit, and that’s how we knew they were trying to figure out what happened to this nuclear warhead?

他们说：“对你所谈论的内容要真正回避。”他们继续谈论“我们找不到它，我们找不到这个装置，这就是我们知道他们试图弄清楚这枚核弹头发生了什么？

Where did it go?

它去哪儿了？

ARC (Air Force Radio): Roger on scene commander: the team went to the unit, now they’re on their way out to give a full report.

ARC（空军电台）：现场指挥官罗杰：小组已经前往部队，现在他们正在出去提供完整的报告。

Team Commander Command Post: What unit are you talking about sir?

指挥所小队指挥官：先生，您说的是哪支部队？

Let’s not talk about that.

我们先不谈这个了。

ARC (Air Force Radio): Laying in a ditch, besides, it’s not even up close.

ARC（空军电台）：躺在沟里，而且还不是很近。

It blew it out and it’s laying in the ditch, it’s all exposed.

它被炸毁了，躺在沟里，全都暴露了。

Col.

上校

John Moser, Commander, 308th Strategic Missile Wing: I went out there the next day.

约翰·莫泽，第 308 战略导弹联队指挥官：第二天我就去了那里。

Somebody said, “there it is.” And it was in the ditch in a somewhat, as I recall, somewhat buried.

有人说：“就在那里。”我记得它在沟渠里，有点被埋了。

And then someone called the nuclear people at Sandia to assess whether or not we had a hazardous situation.

然后有人打电话给桑迪亚的核人员来评估我们是否遇到了危险的情况。

Bob Peurifoy, Director Of Weapon Development, Sandia: The phone rang.

Bob Peurifoy，桑迪亚武器开发总监：电话响了。

They said, “we had a problem.” I knew I had to get to Damascus.

他们说：“我们遇到了问题。”我知道我必须去大马士革。

We helicoptered into the silo.

我们乘直升机进入筒仓。

I was apprehensive.

我很担心。

I knew that the warhead could have been armed.

我知道弹头可能已经武装起来。

Ready to fire.

准备开火。

Robert Kenner, Filmmaker (off Camera): Was there a chance that that bomb could have detonated?

电影制片人罗伯特·肯纳（镜头外）：那颗炸弹有可能爆炸吗？

Bob Peurifoy, Director of Weapon Development, Sandia: Yes.

Bob Peurifoy，桑迪亚武器开发总监：是的。

It was only after we had landed I learned that because of the absence of any power source, the risk of a nuclear detonation was approximately zero.

着陆后我才得知，由于没有任何动力源，核爆炸的风险几乎为零。

ARC (Brokow): The governor of the state of Arkansas is Bill Clinton, as you can see he’s standing by in Little Rock to talk with us about the situation.

ARC（布罗科夫）：阿肯色州州长是比尔·克林顿，你可以看到他正站在小石城与我们谈论局势。

Do you think that the people of Arkansas who lived around the Titan II missile site, Governor, were in danger at the time of the explosion?

州长，您认为居住在泰坦二号导弹基地周围的阿肯色州人民在爆炸时是否处于危险之中？

ARC (Clinton): Well Tom, of course as regards to nuclear explosion all we can do is to trust the experts there, they say there was never a danger of a nuclear explosion.

ARC（克林顿）：嗯，汤姆，当然，关于核爆炸，我们所能做的就是相信那里的专家，他们说从来不存在核爆炸的危险。

ARC (Reporter Interviewing Pryor): As far as the community itself is concerned and the danger from possible radioactive leak, if the warhead itself has been, if there is a warhead and if it has been damaged, have you heard anything from Washington confirming whether there is one there or not?

ARC（记者采访普赖尔）：就社区本身以及可能的放射性泄漏的危险而言，如果弹头本身存在，是否有弹头并且是否已损坏，您是否听到华盛顿方面确认是否有弹头？

ARC (Pryor): I have not, I’ve heard uh rumors, I won’t go into those right now.

ARC（普赖尔）：我没有，我听说过呃谣言，我现在不会谈论这些。

Sen.

参议员。

David Pryor, (D) Arkansas: I remember that Vice President Mondale, he was trying to find out, what, did this have a real warhead?

大卫·普赖尔（David Pryor），（D）阿肯色州：我记得副总统蒙代尔，他试图找出，什么，这有真正的弹头吗？

Did this missile, was it armed with a nuclear warhead?

这枚导弹，装备有核弹头吗？

Col.

上校

John Moser, Commander, 308th Strategic Missile Wing: You know when my, Vice Commander Colonel Ryan went to Hot Springs.

约翰·莫泽，第 308 战略导弹联队指挥官：你知道我的副司令瑞安上校去温泉城的时候。

Vice President Mondale asked that question, whether a nuclear weapon was involved in, of course, Colonel Ryan said “I can’t confirm or deny,” and that’s to the Vice President.

蒙代尔副总统问了这个问题，当然，是否涉及核武器，瑞安上校说“我无法证实或否认”，这是对副总统说的。

That’s when he got on the phone with Secretary Brown.

就在那时，他与布朗国务卿通了电话。

Harold Brown, Secretary of Defense: The first thing I wanted to know was whether there had been any scattering of nuclear material, or still worse, a nuclear explosion, and when I heard that there had not been, my level of attention went way down.

哈罗德·布朗，国防部长：我想知道的第一件事是是否发生了核材料的扩散，或者更糟糕的是，是否发生了核爆炸，当我听说没有发生时，我的注意力就大大降低了。

Accidents were not unusual in the defense department there was at least, there must have been several every day.

至少在国防部门，事故并不罕见，每天肯定有好几起。

Eric Schlosser, Author, Command and Control: According to the Department of Defense, there have been 32 broken arrows, that is serious nuclear weapons accidents that could have endangered the public.

Eric Schlosser，《指挥与控制》作者：据国防部称，已发生 32 支折断的箭，这是严重的核武器事故，可能会危及公众。

But a few years ago, the Department of Energy released a declassified document that said there had been more than a thousand accidents and incidents involving our nuclear weapons.

但几年前，能源部发布了一份解密文件，称已经发生了一千多起涉及我们核武器的事故和事件。

Not only had the public not been told about these hundreds and hundreds of accidents, but even the man responsible for the safety of our nuclear weapons wasn’t being told about accidents involving those weapons.

不仅公众没有被告知这成百上千的事故，甚至连负责核武器安全的人也没有被告知涉及这些武器的事故。

Bob Peurifoy, Director of Weapon Development, Sandia: When I was the director of weapon development I was unaware of a large number of accidents and incidents because I had no access to the information.

Bob Peurifoy，桑迪亚武器开发总监：当我担任武器开发总监时，我没有意识到大量的事故和事件，因为我无法获得这些信息。

Col.

上校

John Moser, Commander, 308th Strategic Missile Wing: I was surprised when I read about the number of nuclear accidents that we had in the Air Force.

约翰·莫泽，第 308 战略导弹联队指挥官：当我了解到空军发生的核事故数量时，我感到很惊讶。

I knew about some of those, but I didn’t know there were so many.

我知道其中一些，但我不知道有这么多。

Eric Schlosser, Author, Command and Control: Again and again in looking at these documents, you find an effort to blame the person who dropped the wrench, who used the wrong tool at a minuteman site, blew the warhead off the missile, who brought the seat cushions onto the plane that caught on fire and crashed the plane.

埃里克·施洛瑟，《命令与控制》作者：一遍又一遍地查看这些文件，你会发现有人试图责怪那些丢下扳手的人，他在民兵现场使用了错误的工具，炸毁了导弹的弹头，他把座垫带到了飞机上，导致飞机着火并坠毁。

There’s this instinct to blame the operator, to blame the little guy.

人们有一种责怪操作员、责怪小家伙的本能。

If the system worked properly, somebody dropping a tool couldn’t send a nuclear warhead into a field.

如果系统工作正常，扔下工具的人就无法将核弹头送入战场。

ARC (News): No special precautions have been ordered at other Titan missile bases around the country because of that explosion in Arkansas.

ARC（新闻）：由于阿肯色州发生爆炸，全国其他泰坦导弹基地并未下令采取特殊预防措施。

ARC (News): In Arkansas the system itself apparently did not fail.

ARC（新闻）：在阿肯色州，系统本身显然没有失败。

A mechanic’s wrench fell from a ledge and struck the missile, puncturing a fuel tank.

一名机械师的扳手从壁架上掉下来，击中了导弹，刺穿了油箱。

That is classified as human error.

这被归类为人为错误。

ARC (News): The air force says the Titan is not to blame, that it was human error that caused the accident.

ARC（新闻）：空军表示泰坦不承担责任，事故是人为失误造成的。

ARC (Hans Mark): The accident that I’ve described here is unrelated to the state or the age of this system.

ARC（汉斯·马克）：我在这里描述的事故与该系统的状态或年龄无关。

Dave Powell, PTS Team: I was served with an article 15 for dereliction of duty because I chose to use the ratchet instead of the torque wrench.

Dave Powell，PTS 团队：我因玩忽职守而受到第 15 条处罚，因为我选择使用棘轮而不是扭矩扳手。

Sgt Kennedy got a letter of reprimand for violating the two man rule.

肯尼迪中士因违反两人规则而收到一封谴责信。

ARC (Kennedy): I gave them my all, and what did I get from them.

ARC（肯尼迪）：我给了他们我的一切，我从他们那里得到了什么。

A letter of reprimand.

一封斥责信。

A letter of reprimand.

一封斥责信。

James Sandaker, PTS Team: After the accident I thought that Kennedy and Devlin and the others that were hurt would be treated like heroes because they were.

詹姆斯·桑德克（James Sandaker），PTS 团队：事故发生后，我以为肯尼迪和德夫林以及其他受伤的人会被当作英雄对待，因为他们本来就是英雄。

And they were treated like crap.

他们被当作垃圾对待。

ARC (News): Some of the officials here at the air base apparently have also changed their attitude towards some of the men who risked their lives that morning.

ARC（新闻）：空军基地的一些官员显然也改变了对那天早上冒着生命危险的一些人的态度。

Greg Devlin, PTS Team: Channel 4 news called and said, you want to tell us about how well the Air Force is treating you since the missile explosion, and I said, yeah I’ll tell them.

Greg Devlin，PTS 团队：第四频道新闻打电话说，你想告诉我们自导弹爆炸以来空军对你的待遇如何，我说，是的，我会告诉他们。

ARC (Devlin): I worked 3 and a half years, did a good job for 3 and a half years and then I wound up hurt from this explosion, and uh, and then all of a sudden they don’t want you anymore.

ARC（德夫林）：我工作了三年半，干了三年半的好工作，然后我因这次爆炸而受伤，然后呃，然后突然他们不再需要你了。

You know, I don’t know if I’m going to be railroaded out, or you know I don’t know where I stand really.

你知道，我不知道我是否会被赶出去，或者你知道我不知道自己真正的处境。

Greg Devlin, PTS Team: Oh man, were they mad.

Greg Devlin，PTS 团队：天哪，他们疯了吗？

I think every brass on base was mad at me.

我想基地里的每个军官都生我的气了。

When I wore my military uniform with my boots on I, I almost couldn’t walk.

当我穿着军装，穿着靴子时，我几乎无法行走。

I couldn’t even move the boot because my ankle was shattered, there’s no Achilles tendon so I just went in and said, Colonel would it be possible for me to wear a gym shoe on my left foot.

我什至无法移动靴子，因为我的脚踝骨折了，没有跟腱，所以我就进去说，上校可以让我在左脚上穿运动鞋吗？

He looked at me and he said, Devlin, I wouldn’t authorize a fucking thing for you.

他看着我说，德夫林，我他妈的不会授权给你任何事。

I planned on staying in the Air Force for a career.

我计划留在空军工作。

Within only a few months, I knew I couldn’t stay in the Air Force.

仅仅几个月后，我就知道我不能留在空军了。

Jeffrey Plumb, PTS Team: I kind of lost it, um, after that accident.

Jeffrey Plumb，PTS 团队：在那次事故之后，我有点失去了它。

I just had a melt down.

我刚刚崩溃了。

I went into, I went into the TV room where we all played cards and one evening and there was beer bottles all over the place and I just started throwing a bunch of beer bottles all over the place and took my frustrations out on that.

我走进去，我走进电视室，我们都在那里打牌，有一天晚上，到处都是啤酒瓶，我开始把一堆啤酒瓶扔得到处都是，以此来发泄我的沮丧。

The base commander, he gave me an honorable discharge which I was thankful for but that was not my goal was to leave the military at that time.

基地指挥官，他让我光荣退伍，我对此表示感谢，但当时我的目标不是离开军队。

Col.

上校

John Moser, Commander, 308th Strategic Missile Wing: There was an old motto that went around that to err was human, to forgive wasn’t SAC policy.

约翰·莫泽 (John Moser)，第 308 战略导弹联队指挥官：有一句古老的座右铭流传着：人都会犯错，宽恕不是 SAC 的政策。

ARC (Moser): We have a checklist in our command post that that calls for us to notify the OES.

ARC (Moser)：我们的指挥所里有一份清单，要求我们通知 OES。

Now I’m not saying it broke down there, don’t, don’t misconstrue what I’m saying.

现在我并不是说它在那里崩溃了，不要，不要误解我在说什么。

What I’m saying is from there on down there was no plan.

我想说的是，从那时起就没有计划了。

This is the test bed, 4-7 was the test bed and we never, nothing like this has ever happened before.

这是测试台，4-7 是测试台，我们以前从未发生过这样的事情。

Col.

上校

John Moser, Commander, 308th Strategic Missile Wing: Even though you know I‘d just had three months there I was in charge and a senior guy is responsible for the whole operation.

约翰·莫泽（John Moser），第 308 战略导弹联队指挥官：尽管你知道我只在那里呆了三个月，但我负责整个行动，而一名高级人员则负责整个行动。

I expected I was going to lose my job, let’s put it that way, after that happened.

这么说吧，在那件事发生之后，我预计我会失去工作。

I thought that was, that would be the next step and that happened on Thanksgiving.

我认为这将是下一步，并且发生在感恩节。

My regret was that I took orders from my boss, I clicked my heels like a good soldier and tried to execute those orders as best I could.

我的遗憾是，我听从了老板的命令，我像一个好士兵一样脚踏实地，尽我所能地执行这些命令。

And as a result of that, we lost life.

结果，我们失去了生命。

Dave Powell, PTS Team: I think about Livingston often.

Dave Powell，PTS 团队：我经常想起利文斯顿。

What it’d be like to still have him around and call him up on the phone.

如果他还在身边，给他打电话，那会是什么样子？

Jeff Kennedy passed away a couple of years ago.

杰夫·肯尼迪几年前去世了。

I have no doubt that Jeff died from being involved in Damascus, no doubt in my mind.

我毫不怀疑杰夫是因参与大马士革而死的，在我看来也是如此。

I hear a song on the radio, I’ll see something on TV, and bam, there it is, it’s back, you know.

我在收音机里听到一首歌，我会在电视上看到一些东西，然后砰，它就在那里，它回来了，你知道。

It’s very hard to talk about, even today.

即使在今天，这也很难谈论。

I uh tried to live as normal a life as I can, and uh, and uh, but there isn’t a day goes by that I don’t think about it.

我呃尝试过尽可能正常的生活，呃，呃，但是我没有一天不思考这个问题。

30 whatever, 35 years whatever it’s been.

不管怎样，30年了，35年了。

Every day.

每天。

ARC (news): It went like clockwork, 6500 pounds of explosives set to go at high noon.

ARC（新闻）：事情进展顺利，6500 磅的炸药在正午发射。

Eric Schlosser, Author, Command and Control: Seven years after the Damascus accident, the last Titan II was deactivated.

埃里克·施洛瑟（Eric Schlosser），《指挥与控制》作者：大马士革事故发生七年后，最后一艘泰坦二号被停用。

Sam Hutto, Dairy Farmer: If you didn’t know they were there you wouldn’t know what it was now.

Sam Hutto，奶农：如果你不知道他们在那里，你就不会知道现在是什么。

It just looks like a small hill.

它看起来就像一座小山。

James Sandaker, PTS Team: I think nowadays people don’t realize that we still have 7000 nuclear weapons.

James Sandaker，PTS 团队：我认为现在人们没有意识到我们仍然拥有 7000 件核武器。

They think that’s all in the past and that they’re not there anymore and the reality is they’re all over the place.

他们认为那都是过去的事了，他们已经不存在了，而现实是他们到处都是。

Harold Brown, Secretary of Defense: Nuclear accidents continue to the present day, although there have not been nearly as many occasions of things being dropped or blown out of silos.

哈罗德·布朗，国防部长：核事故至今仍在继续，尽管核事故从发射井中掉落或炸出的次数已经没有那么多了。

In part, that’s because there are fewer of them.

部分原因是它们的数量较少。

On the other hand, the degree of oversight and attention has, if anything, gotten worse, because people don’t worry about nuclear war as much.

另一方面，监督和关注的程度甚至变得更糟，因为人们不再那么担心核战争。

Eric Schlosser, Author, Command and Control: Since the beginning of the atomic age the United States has built about 70,000 nuclear weapons.

埃里克·施洛瑟（Eric Schlosser），《指挥与控制》作者：自原子时代开始以来，美国已经制造了大约 70,000 件核武器。

None of them have ever detonated by accident.

它们中没有一个是意外引爆的。

That’s due to the skills of our weapons designers, whose safety recommendations were finally adopted and the bravery of our military personnel.

这要归功于我们武器设计师的技能（他们的安全建议最终被采纳）以及我们军事人员的勇敢。

But it’s also due to luck.

但这也是运气的原因。

Pure luck.

纯粹是运气。

And the problem with luck is eventually it runs out.

运气的问题是它最终会耗尽。

Nuclear weapons are machines.

核武器是机器。

And every machine ever invented eventually goes wrong.

有史以来发明的每台机器最终都会出错。

Allan Childers, Missile Combat Crew: It doesn’t matter how much you plan, it doesn’t matter how many checklists you have, somebody’s got a ringer somewhere they’re going to throw out there at you.

艾伦·奇尔德斯（Allan Childers），导弹战斗人员：无论你有多少计划，无论你有多少清单，有人都会在某个地方向你扔出铃声。

Bob Peurifoy, Director of Weapon Development, Sandia: Nuclear weapons will always have a chance of an accidental detonation.

Bob Peurifoy，桑迪亚武器开发总监：核武器总是有可能发生意外爆炸。

It will happen.

它会发生。

It may be tomorrow, or it may be a million years from now, but it will happen.

这可能是明天，也可能是一百万年后，但它会发生。

Filmmaker Robert Kenner talks about filming inside of a decomissioned Titan II Missile complex in order to recreate a harrowing event from 1980.

电影制片人罗伯特·肯纳 (Robert Kenner) 讲述了如何在退役的泰坦二号导弹综合设施内进行拍摄，以重现 1980 年发生的悲惨事件。

All-out nuclear war may be the greatest risk we face with modern weaponry, but it’s not the only one.

全面核战争可能是我们现代武器面临的最大风险，但它并不是唯一的风险。

Could interplanetary space travel be made possible by harnessing the power of a nuclear bomb?

利用核弹的力量可以实现星际太空旅行吗？

This Retro Report co-production looks at a Cold War attempt to find a new use for the bomb.

这部联合制作的回顾报告着眼于冷战时期寻找炸弹新用途的尝试。

Bob Peurifoy and Bill Stevens were both engineers at Sandia National Laboratories.

鲍勃·佩里福伊 (Bob Peurifoy) 和比尔·史蒂文斯 (Bill Stevens) 都是桑迪亚国家实验室的工程师。

Both men were shocked when they realized how vulnerable the nation’s nuclear weapons were to accidents.

当两人意识到该国的核武器多么容易发生事故时，他们都感到震惊。

Watch the opening scene of Command and Control .

观看《命令与控制》的开场场景。

Lieutenant Allan Childers was a deputy commander of the Titan II Missile Combat Crew.

艾伦·奇尔德斯中尉是泰坦二号导弹战斗队的副指挥官。

He was on duty the night of the accident in Damascus, Arkansas.

事故发生当晚，他正在阿肯色州大马士革值班。

A chilling nightmare plays out at a Titan II missile complex in Arkansas in September, 1980.

1980 年 9 月，阿肯色州的泰坦二号导弹基地上演了一场令人毛骨悚然的噩梦。

When all that stands between the world and nuclear disaster is the flip of a switch.

当世界与核灾难之间的唯一障碍就是按下开关时。