ABSTRACT

Ten years after the first sustained nuclear chain reaction, the author surveys a bleak landscape in which few beneficial applications of nuclear power have been achieved but many resources have been devoted to new and more powerful nuclear weapons.

中文翻译：

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1952年：十年后

摘要

在第一次持续的核链反应发生十年后，作者调查了一个惨淡的景象，在该景象中，实现核电的有益应用很少，但许多资源都投入到了新的更强大的核武器上。