Such fatalism is a deadly adversary, for if we believe that the spread of nuclear weapons is inevitable, then in some way we are admitting to ourselves that the use of nuclear weapons is inevitable.

这种宿命论是我们的致命敌人，因为，如果我们认为核武器扩散是不可避免的，就等于在某种程度上对自己承认核武器的使用是不可避免的。

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Some analysts speculated the weapons could have been destined from there for Pakistan, the Middle East, or an African nation such as Sudan.

一些分析人士猜测，军火可能是要从那里运往巴基斯坦、中东或某个非洲国家，比如苏丹。

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Although some nuclear weapons effects (NWE) such as blast and cratering have analogs in the effects of conventional weapons, many NWE are unique to nuclear use.

虽然部分核武器效应(Nuclear weapons effects NWE)如冲击波和地面落坑与常规武器类似，但仍有许多核爆所独有的武器效应。

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Mr. Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran who became a war protester, did defend some of his record yesterday, saying he had voted for the biggest Pentagon and intelligence budgets in U.S. history but had also challenged President Reagan's "Star Wars" missile defense as well as some weapons systems such as the MX missile.

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But the logic in the long run of making such alliances is that Europe's firms will otherwise lose the ability to make some big-ticket weapons, such as advanced fighters, without American help.

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Moreover, the Jordanian near-miss underscores the point that we should take no comfort from the fact that the status of such weapons is unknown, since some of them may wind up being used outside Iraq.

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