By Saturday night, informal brigades of mostly young men armed with bats, kitchen knives and other makeshift weapons had taken control, setting up checkpoints around the city.

到周六晚上，一个由网球拍，菜刀和其他自制武器武装起来的由年轻人组成的非正式组织已经控制局势，在城市的四周设置检查点。

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Those warning of the danger of easy availability of nuclear technology and of poor control of the former Soviet Union's nuclear weapons have experienced something similar.

那些曾对核技术获取之轻易和前苏联核武控制之糟糕的危险发出警告的人，有过与此类似的经历。

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Nuclear-winter doomsayers placed their hopes, variously, in an unverifiable nuclear-weapons “freeze, ” American unilateral disarmament, or assigning control of nuclear weapons to international bodies.

核冬天的悲观论者，将他们的希望，一厢情愿地放在未经证实的核武器“冻结”、美国的单方面裁军、或者国际机构对核武器的控制之上。

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At their joint news conference, Mr.Obama also talked about efforts to control the spread of nuclear weapons - an issue that is topping the agenda for his discussions here with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev.

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They oppose the advance of freedom, and they want to gain control of weapons of mass destruction.

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The most urgent question is control of weapons, which has yet to be worked out between the two parties.

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And so the fighting began, and they began -- eventually, they took some heavier weapons, and they took control of weapons in the storage house and some other things.

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