However, following the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Borlaug tried to join the military, but was rejected under wartime labour regulations.

然而，在1941年12月7日袭击珍珠港后，博洛格试图参军，但因战时的劳动法规被拒绝。

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For all its overwhelming industrial and mercantile dominance, the United States remained a tenth-rate military power (except for its navy) until galvanized by Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.

比如，由于拥有压倒性的工业与商业优势，直到日本袭击珍珠港之前，美国一直是个低等军事国家（海军除外）。

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Pearl Harbor was a military base, and when it got attacked, the US decided to TWICE bomb civilian cities.

珍珠港是个军事基地，当它受到袭击时，美国决定二次轰炸那些平民城市。

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The shell dropped and exploded above Fort Sumter, a United States military base on an island in the harbor.

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This kind of overconfidence can lead to disasters, such as with the Chernobyl disaster (the Ukrainian Minister of Power stated the odds of a meltdown were 1 in 10, 000 just two months before the meltdown), the Challenger (NASA estimated the odds of catastrophic failure as 1 in 100, 000), or Pearl Harbor (the American military believed that Pearl Harbor was virtually immune to attack).

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The U.S. withdrawal from Asia lead to a decline in military spending at sprawling bases like Hickam Air Force Base and Pearl Harbor Naval Base (some respite came in military housing construction throughout the last decade).

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The radar detected the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, although the military failed to react.

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