After the detonation of nuclear bombs at the end of world War II, the world moved deeper into the atomic age and the nuclear standoff between the superpowers.

在第二次世界大战末期引爆核弹之后，世界步入原子时代，深深陷入超级大国之间的核对峙之中。

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Japan melted down, but that doesn't mean the end of the atomic age.

日本的核危机并不意味着原子能时代的结束。

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From its birth in the sands of New Mexico, the atomic age they helped create is now sixty-five years old.

他们一手创建的原子时代，从新墨西哥州的沙漠诞生，到现在过去了65年。

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Regardless of the success or failure of these ambitious anti-nuclear energy agendas, the age of atomic power is anything but over.

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An interview published last year in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists detailed how at age 88, he was working on a new approach to photovoltaic thin-film production that he said would allow factories to make enough solar panels in a year to produce at least one gigawatt of electricity annually roughly the scale of a nuclear power plant at the price of coal.

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There, on July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb was detonated, and the nuclear age exploded into existence.

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