盤點10種仍在使用的恐怖武器(下)
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3.集束炸彈Among the most indiscriminate weapons out there, cluster bombs are very close to the top.
集束炸彈也許能排到“濫殺無辜”武器排行榜的第一名。Dropped out of an airplane flying by, a single bomb suddenly transforms into hundreds or even thousands smaller ones, covering an area the size of three football fields.
隨着戰鬥機的發射，一枚炸彈瞬間分解成成百上千枚更小的炸彈，能覆蓋三個足球場的面積。
Now, either intentional or by accident, 30 percent or higher of these don't go off and can lie dormant for years or even decades, just waiting for an unfortunate someone to step on or pick them up.
目前，無論是蓄意還是無意爲之，一枚炸彈中的30%甚至以上小炸彈都不會爆炸，它們能休眠幾年甚至幾十年，直到某個倒黴蛋一腳踩上去或是將它們撿起。They aren't designed to destroy buildings, but rather to hit infantry, roads or airstrips.
設計集束炸彈不是爲了摧毀建築，而是對步兵，道路和飛機跑道實施打擊。Many countries around the world still suffer their plight, years after their conflicts have ended.
就算戰爭的硝煙早已散盡，但許多國家安全仍受到子母彈的威脅。
It is estimated that between 2010 and 2014, 92 percent of all cluster bomb casualties were civilian, half of whom were children.
據估計在2010-2014年間，子母彈造成的92％的傷亡都來自平民，而其中一半是孩子。During the 2003 invasion of Iraq over 1,500 cluster bombs were detonated over Baghdad, some of which ended up in residential areas.
在2003年的伊拉克戰爭期間，超過1500枚子母彈在巴格達上空炸響，而其中一些落在了居民區。US Air Force General and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Richard Myers declared that only one civilian was reported to being killed in the attack.
美國空軍將軍，參謀長聯席會議主席理查德·梅耶爾宣稱只有一名平民在這次襲擊中喪命。What he was referring to were air-launched cluster bombs, but he did omit to talk about the surface-launched ones, which are believed to have caused many more civilian casualties.
他所指的是空射集束炸彈造成的傷亡，但卻避而不談陸射造成的傷亡，據估計那是一個龐大的數字。In 2008 a UN convention banned the use of these weapons and more than 100 countries, including the UK have signed it. Other countries like the US, Russia, China, India and Pakistan have not.
2008年聯合國頒佈一項公約，禁止使用此類武器，超過100個國家簽字承諾，其中包括了英國。其它國家比如美國、俄羅斯、中國、印度和巴基斯坦都未簽字。Moreover, recent evidence points out that Russia has used a new type of cluster bomb over Syria in an attack against opponents of President Bashar al-Assad , plaguing the country for years to come.
並且最近有證據指出，俄羅斯使用了一種新型集束炸彈來對付敘利亞總統巴沙爾·阿薩德的反對者，這使敘利亞未來幾年陷入水深火熱之中。ear Missiles
2.核導彈Nuclear missiles are the most terrifying things we have ever built. Coming so close to wiping ourselves off the face of the planet during the Cold War, it would have made sense to rid ourselves of this horrific danger always looming in the background.
核導彈是人類發明過最恐怖的東西。在冷戰期間差點洗刷了整個地球面貌，然而它現在留下許多威脅，在世界的某些角落蠢蠢欲動。Well, that didn't happen and there is still enough nuclear arsenal in the world to wipe out all life as we know it, ten times over.
雖然核導彈毀滅地球的事情還沒發生，但地球上留有的核子彈的威力可以摧毀整個地球，十次足以。Of the roughly 16,000 nuclear warheads in existence, more than 90 percent belong to Russia and the United States. Of these, 10,000 are in military service while the rest await dismantlement.
現地球上留有16000個核彈頭左右，超過90%的核彈頭是俄羅斯和美國的。1萬個用來做軍事裝備，其餘的準備拆卸。Other countries with nuclear capabilities include France, China, the UK, Pakistan, India, Israel, and North Korea.
其他有核武器的國家有：法國，中國，英國，巴基斯坦，印度，以色列和朝鮮。Most of us know or have heard about the devastating effects a nuclear detonation can have, and pretty much anyone has seen at least one such explosion somewhere on TV or the internet, so it's no point in giving you any more details.
我們大多數人知道或聽說過核爆炸帶來的毀滅性傷害，而且至少在電視或網上看過核爆炸，所以在這沒必要在詳說核爆炸了。
Even though nuclear weapons haven't been used in active warfare since the end of WWII by the US against Japan, many test detonations have been performed all around the globe since then.
自從二戰期間，美國用核武器來對付日本之後，核武器便不再用於戰爭中。然而即便如此，核彈試爆也會在地球上發生。These tests ended in 1998 with both India and Pakistan detonating such weapons for the first time. In 2006 however, North Korea detonated its own nuclear bomb.
1998年，印度和巴基斯坦首次核彈試驗，同時也在此禁止了。然而2006年，朝鮮發起核彈試驗。Though small in comparison with what's out there, they have since performed two more tests in 2009 and 2013, with the former being 50 times more powerful than the one 7 years earlier.
儘管發起的核爆炸威力較小，但是朝鮮又於2009年和2013年發起核爆炸試驗。前後共50次，而且威力遠遠超過7年前的試驗。Efforts are being made to reduce the number of these extremely dangerous warheads, and hopefully one day, eliminate them completely.
現在人們想盡辦法解決核武器的威脅，希望有朝一日所有的核威脅都沒有了。However progress is slow at best and given the secretive nature with which most governments treat information about their nuclear arsenals, ridding ourselves of them will be a very long process.
然而，消除核彈頭的進程十分緩慢，而且大多數政府怎麼處理核武器的信息是高度機密的，所以將地球上所有的核武器清除的過程會十分漫長。Nuclear missiles may not have the Death Star's capability to take out an entire planet, but they can certainly take out a sizable chunk of one.
核武器可能沒有那麼大的力量將我們引至世界末日，但是它確實可以摧毀地球的大部分土地。s
1.分導式多彈頭What can be worse than a nuclear weapon, you may ask? Well, if you were to combine one with a cluster bomb you would end up with a MIRV (Multiple Independently-targetable Reentry Vehicle).
你可能會說，世上還有比核武器更恐怖的東西嗎？但是如果你將核武器與集束炸彈結合在一起，你就會看到一個MIRV。As compared to an ordinary nuclear ballistic missile, where one bomb equals one nuclear mushroom, a MIRV flies off at the edge of space, breaks off into a dozen remotely guided bombs, which then fall back to the ground.
如果說普通的子母彈只是相當於製造出一朵蘑菇雲的話，那麼MIRV就相當於12朵蘑菇雲。將一個MIRV射向宇宙的邊際之後，它們就會變成多個遠程導炸彈飛回地球。Being smaller and accompanied by confusing flares, these nuclear ordnances are far more difficult to take down.
它們變小了並伴隨混亂的耀斑之後，就更難消滅了。
This technology has been around as early as the 1960's and was one of the major reasons for the escalation of the nuclear arms race during the Cold War.
MIRV早在20世紀60年代已經研發出來了，是冷戰時期廣爲使用的一種技術。They would be primarily used to take down fixed targets like missile silos or airstrips, but keeping in mind that these are still nuclear weapons, collateral damage is inevitable.
一開始的研發只是爲了導彈發射井或飛機跑道這樣的固定目標，然而發展到後面就不一樣的，畢竟它們也是一種核武器，所以附帶損害是難以避免的。Currently the US Minuteman missile system carries 3 nuclear bombs, while the Trident system, used by both the US and UK, carries twelve.
現在，美國民兵導彈系統可以發出三枚核子彈，三叉戟系統在美國和英國也有使用，可發射12枚核子彈。Only one such weapon is enough to wipe most European capital cities off the map completely, killing millions of innocent people in the process.
而僅僅一顆這樣的導彈就可摧毀地圖裏大部分的歐洲城市，殺死幾百萬無辜百姓。
