Erika Gregory: The world doesn't need more nuclear weapons
艾瑞卡·格雷戈里: 世界不需要更多的核武器
Bringing cross-disciplinary tactics and innovation to a moribund defense industry, N Square’s Erika Gregory seeks to wean the world from its nuclear stockpiles. Full bio
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material do you think it would take
的城市夷为平地?
it would be an amount
the right circumstances,
about the size of your morning latte
高度浓缩铀,
would become horribly ill,
会遭受可怕疾病的折磨,
would be uninhabitable for years,
成为生命的禁区长达数年,
are hundreds of times more powerful
on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
原子弹还要强大数百倍。
involving, say, tens of nuclear weapons,
假设说仅使用了十几颗核弹头,
of all life on the planet.
over 15,000 nuclear weapons
or near a military facility,
或者临近某个军事基地,
可能正瞄准着你的位置。
of the rural areas
are on high alert,
处于高度警戒状态,
within 15 minutes
十五分钟之内发动攻击
what was it? -- psychic fatigue
for just a second,
about my imaginary friend,
politically and socially engaged
and leaders and activists.
about the issues they care about,
which makes sense,
不过这其实可以理解,
at the end of the Cold War.
也就是冷战结束的时期。
about nuclear weapons.
并没有经常听到核武问题的报道。
under her desk at school.
只是一款安卓软件的名称。
is an app in the Android store.
Generation Possible
decisions about nuclear weapons.
为我们作出重要决定。
our nuclear arsenals globally,
全球核武器军备,
throughout the 21st century,
she's talking to her children
她不得不跟她的孩子,
at all to cyberthreats,
about the Stuxnet virus
had an email account or a Yahoo account
如果你的邮箱或雅虎账号
of hurt that could be triggered
随着网络战争的升级,
of cyberwarfare.
attention to the money,
很长的一段时间里
and employing people,
of nuclear war to begin with.
they're vulnerable.
to get ahold of them.
and two taxi drivers were arrested
for 200 million dollars,
的价格销售核原料,
for this stuff is alive and well.
在黑市上存在并活跃着。
dozens of accidents
anything about them.
on the Carolinas twice.
意外坠落过两次。
was stored somewhere else on the plane.
did arm when it hit the ground,
to keep it from detonating failed.
to get your attention,
检测到一个导弹,
那只是挪威的火箭,
a Norwegian rocket
came within five minutes
retaliatory nuclear attack
of these weapons of mass destruction.
of Nuclear Weapons,
arms control treaty in history
the world's nuclear-armed nations
sent a man to the moon
or decided to do both those things,
you guys get to it."
那仍然是天方夜谭。
just a few years earlier.
people don't know this, either --
其实大多数人都不知道,
Cold War rival, the Soviet Union.
for the Apollo program
not a competition, with the Soviets.
the Soviet Premier, agreed.
尼基塔·赫鲁晓夫同意了。
could be realized,
between these two nuclear superpowers
之间进行合作的承诺,
that Jasmine was born
to the Russians when they needed it most,
美国向其提供现金,
nuclear scientists.
to convert weapons-grade uranium
把武器级别的高浓缩铀,
for nuclear power instead.
in the United States
by former Russian warheads.
did something truly audacious.
迈出了勇敢的一步。
the global community has the chance
如今的国际社会同样也有机会
required to produce them,
for better or worse,
which gave rise to nuclear weapons,
正是此计划给人来带来了核武器,
for international collaboration;
a forcing mechanism;
作为驱使机制。
that inspires action.
来鼓励我们采取行动。
the 100th anniversary
在新墨西哥州沙漠
in the New Mexico desert.
for another reason.
of the singularity,
intelligence and human intelligence blur,
become almost indistinguishable
the 21st century's greatest problems:
解决21世纪最大的问题:
a multi-planetary species.
this vision are the first to say
how we're going to get there.
如何实现这些愿景。
from the outcomes they want,
of collaborative design.
what we all consider possible.
on a 20th-century nuclear doctrine
the foundations for the 22nd century.
供22世纪的世界有序运行的基础。
for mutually assured prosperity
可以保证共同繁荣的策略
mutually assured survival.
人类可以和平共存。
people who are real pioneers
are young women,
interesting stuff,
并且有趣的成就,
who is developing new ways,
在研究新的方式,
overcome a critical hurdle
satellite imaging
around far-flung nuclear sites.
to make nuclear weapons illegal
at the UN last week.
about moon shots,
and those of us who mentor them
that has really stuck with me,
很打动我的东西:
believe that, too.
Possible believes it.
billions of people hostage
我们会把几十亿人当成
to manage global conflict.
控制全球冲突的方式。
moon shot worth supporting,
伟大的全球项目,
nuclear weapons tests,
some number of nuclear weapons
What's the magic number?
represents a greater global threat
比所谓的承诺
the stranglehold
on our imaginations;
in the creative solutions
from the future we desperately want,
from a present
and biases of the past with it.
as leaders across the spectrum
使用我们的资源,
for Jasmine's generation
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Erika Gregory - Nuclear reformerBringing cross-disciplinary tactics and innovation to a moribund defense industry, N Square’s Erika Gregory seeks to wean the world from its nuclear stockpiles.
Why you should listen
As a Juilliard drama graduate, serial entrepreneur Erika Gregory might seem like an unlikely candidate to disrupt the nuclear weapons industry. But given an establishment built on Cold War stereotypes and motivated by profits, outside innovation may be just what the world needs to shrink our still-growing atomic-weapons stockpile.
Now in her role as the Managing Director of N Square Collaborative, the brainchild of five of the world's largest peace and security funders, Gregory is exploring cross-disciplinary, collaborative approaches to nuclear weapons threat -- from engaging emerging technology innovators to recasting the way nuclear weapons are portrayed in games and other media.
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