宇宙时空之旅：未知世界（2020）

Cosmos: Possible Worlds S01E10

Part 4 Aug. 24, 2022, 10:55 a.m.

of unprecedented destructive power.
他们可以信任政♥府♥
Their government could be trusted.
政♥府♥绝对不会和他国政♥府♥一样
They would never use such a weapon in an act of
运用这种武器进行侵略
aggression, not like those other governments.
这些原子科学家将首次见识
These atomic scientists were the first to see
如何用打造核武器来威慑阻止使用核武器
building nuclear weapons as a deterrent to using them.
担心希♥特♥勒♥使用原♥子♥弹♥
The fear of Hitler with an atomic bomb was the driving
是驱动曼哈顿计划的理由
rationale for the Manhattan Project.
然而当德国投降希♥特♥勒♥身亡
And yet, when Germany surrendered and Hitler was no more,
数千名参与计划的科学家中
of the thousands of scientists who worked on the bomb,
只有一人退出
only one resigned.
那就是约瑟夫·罗特布拉特
It was Joe Rotblat.
在往后数年
In the years that followed, whenever he was asked about
每当他被问及退出的决定
his decision, he always rejected any suggestion that
他总是否认自己有道德优越感
he had done so out of moral superiority.
而只是笑笑说
He would just smile and say, the truth was that he
是因为太想念妻子了妻子之前被迫留在华沙
desperately missed his wife, who had been prevented from
因战争与他失去了联♥系♥
leaving Warsaw and lost to him in the chaos of the war.
欧洲战事结束后
With its end in Europe
罗特布拉特终于有机会回去寻妻
came his chance to go and search for her.
但是他从未找到她
But, he never found her.
只在死亡名单上看见托拉的名字
Except as a name on a list of the dead.
托拉在大屠♥杀♥中身亡
Tola had perished in the Holocaust.
在贝乌热茨集中营遭到处决
Exterminated at the Belzec concentration camp.
*贝乌热茨集中营是纳粹德国
为执行赖因哈德行动
所设立的第一个屠♥杀♥营
约有40余万人被杀害
罗特布拉特在之后的六十年生命中都是孑然一身
Although he lived another 60 years,
没有再婚
Rotblat never remarried.
三个国家在战时都投入研究
Of the three nations that pursued wartime research
打造原♥子♥弹♥
into building the bomb,
但只有美国在战争结束前成功
only the U. S. succeeded before the war's end.
历史学家认为
And historians believe that was because America had
这是因为美国的移♥民♥人口众多
taken in so many immigrants.
曼哈顿计划的主导人物
Of the leading figures in the Manhattan Project,
其中只有2名美国人
only two were native born.
而且只有一人在美国取得博士学位
And only one got his PhD in the U.S.
美国在日本广岛和长崎投下原♥子♥弹♥
Atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of
结束了第二次世界大战
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending the second World War.
两个月后杜鲁门总统为了祝贺奥本海默
Two months later, President Truman invited Oppenheimer
邀请他到白宫总统办公室
for congratulations in the Oval Office.
但让杜鲁门失望的是
But to Truman's dismay,
奥本海默没有心情庆祝
Oppenheimer was in no mood to celebrate.
总统先生，我感觉双手沾满了血
OPPENHEIMER: Mr. President, I feel like I have blood on my hands.
说什么傻话
TRUMAN: Don't be a fool.
如果有谁双手沾血那也是我
If anyone has blood on their hands, it's me.
我丝毫不觉得怎么样
And it doesn't bother me at all.
你认为多久以后
OPPENHEIMER: How long do you think it will be before the
俄♥国♥人就会制♥造♥出原♥子♥弹♥
Russians get the bomb?
永远不可能
TRUMAN: Never!
别再让那个哭丧着脸的科学家来找我
Don't you ever let that cry baby scientist anywhere
听见了吗？
near me again, do you hear?
不到四年
Less than four years later,
俄♥国♥就试爆了第一颗原♥子♥弹♥
the Russians exploded their own atomic bomb.
而且没过多久两国都开始制♥造♥"超级"
And shortly after, both nations went on to create
热核氢弹
supers: thermonuclear hydrogen bombs.
因三封科学家的信件促成的核武军备竞赛
The nuclear arms race begun by those three letters from
可怕地开启了
scientists was off to a terrifying start.
战后泰勒的梦想
After the war, Teller's dreams of greater and greater killing
更强大的杀戮力量得以实现
power were to come true.
1950年代早期美国开始对共♥产♥党员展开迫♥害♥
The early 1950s, when the Communist witch hunts began
泰勒欣然暗示他的前上司
in the United States, he was perfectly happy to hint
也就是曼哈顿计划幕后的推手
that Robert Oppenheimer, his former boss,
罗伯特·奥本海默
who had brilliantly run the Manhattan Project,
应该被剥夺安全许可
should be stripped of his security clearance,
因而毁了奥本海默的职业生涯
thereby ruining Oppenheimer's career.
虽然核武器已经急剧减少
Despite dramatic reductions in nuclear arsenals,
核战争依然是我们挥之不去的梦魇
the specter of nuclear war haunts us still.
在火山的烟雾笼罩下
How can we sleep so soundly
我们如何能安稳入睡？
in the shadow of a smoking volcano?
在另一个时空有另外一群人陷入极端危险
In another time, there were others who faced a
宛如在梦中无处可逃
grave danger as if immobilized in a dream.
让我告诉你另一个故事
Let me tell you a story.
有两名男子走进酒吧
Two men walk into a bar.
他们起了冲突
And they got into a fight.
不许动！
SOLDIERS: Allez!
路易·奥古斯特·希尔巴里遭到逮捕
Louis-Auguste Cyparis was arrested and taken to the
被带往圣皮埃尔监狱关在地牢里
Saint Pierre Prison, where he was locked in the dungeon.
这件事发生在1902年
This all happened on the French colonial island of
在加勒比海的法属马提尼克岛
Martinique in the Caribbean in 1902.
当时正在举♥行♥选举活动
In the midst of an election campaign.
在这个四月早晨
On this April morning, Fernan Cleric stepped outside
费尔南·克莱里克踏出屋外赏景
to admire the view.
他对于目光所及之处了若指掌
He was master of all he surveyed.
利用岛上树木制♥作♥家具的工厂
The factories that turned the island's trees into furniture.
还有连绵不绝的甘蔗田和咖啡园
And the fields of sugar cane and coffee.
奇怪了
That's strange.
阳光和煦的早上怎么会有霜呢？
Why would there be frost on such a sunny warm morning?
但是那并不是霜
But it wasn't frost, it was ash from the volcano,
而是来自培雷火山的火山灰
Mount Pelée.
当火山灰开始飘散
When the ash began to fall,
美国领事夫人克莱尔·厄普提斯
Claire Apprentice, wife of the American Council
原本打算回到故乡马萨诸塞州
considered going home to Massachusetts.
但毫无疑问是不行的
No, but that was out of the question.
她下周计划了一场盛会
There was the gala she planned for the following week,
绝对不可能延期
postponing it was unthinkable.
许多人贫贱不能移
And there were many who were too poor to leave their meager
没法离开圣皮埃尔市
possessions and flee the city of Saint Pierre for a
前往岛上比较安全的地带
safer part of the island.
其他有能力的人纷纷搭船离开
Others, with the means to do so, departed on boats.
傅榭市长工作到很晚
Mayor Fouché worked late into the evening,
规划耶稣升♥天♥节的晚宴和舞会
drafting detailed plans for the Ascension Day Banquet and Ball.
同时在楼下
Meanwhile, below...
仆人为了准备宴会
Servants cleaned ash from the banquet hall
正在清理宴会厅的灰尘
in preparation for the event.
在马提尼克岛上称得上科学家的
The closest thing to a scientist on the island of Martinique
是一位小学老师名叫加斯顿蓝恩
was an elementary school teacher named Gaston Landes.
蓝恩造访了刚苏醒的火山口
Landes actually made a pilgrimage to the newly
并将他观察到的频繁火山活动
awakened volcanic crater and shared his observations of
在报纸上分享
heightened activity in the newspaper.
但蓝恩更关心的是
But Landes was more concerned about his
即将到来的巴黎旅行
forthcoming trip to Paris.
他受邀前往发表一场演讲
He was to display samples of the island's plant life along
预定在演讲时展示岛上的植物样本
with the lecture he had been asked to give.
但是大量的火山灰落下
But, with the ash falling at this rate,
让他的样本全毁了
his specimens would all be ruined.
傅榭市长决心要张贴新的布告
Mayor Fouché mustered enough resolve to create a new poster.
各位市民请勿恐慌
"Fellow citizens, be not afraid.
火山熔岩短期内不会影响本市
No lava flows could reach the city in the near future.
本市与火山之间相隔七公里
We have seven kilometers between us and the volcano.
必须要有相当大量的熔岩
The amount of lava would have to be impossibly huge
才可能越过两座大山谷
to cross the two immense valleys and the swamp
以及沼泽的阻隔
between us and Mount Peleé."
五月七日清晨
In the early hours of May 7th,
圣皮埃尔市的民众们纷纷惊醒
the people Saint Pierre awoke to thundering seismic tremors
因为地狱般的火山口附近传来雷鸣般的地震和火山闪电
and volcanic lightning near the mouth of the hellish volcano.
此时惊慌的民众四处逃窜
Now, mass panic began to spread.
当局派出军队安抚公众
Troops were dispatched to try and calm the public.
接着…
And then...
就在五月八日
Just before the dawn of Thursday morning.
周四的黎明时分
May 8th.
火山突然平静下来