To counter these new air defenses, the Pentagon wants to build a host of precision weapons that can hit any target from thousands of miles away.

为应对这些新型防空系统的挑战，五角大楼想研发一大批精确打击武器，它们可从数千英里之外击中任何目标。

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Middletown Mayor Robert Reid still keeps a working Geiger counter in his office, a few miles upstream from the plant.

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But Tudor Morgan, the heir to the dynasty, is back behind a counter once again - 10, 000 miles away in one of the world's most southerly shop at Port Lockroy on Antarctica.

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On a fine summer day she drives to Nihonmatsu, 56km (35 miles) from the ruined nuclear plant at Fukushima, and notes her Geiger counter ticking higher: another step in the DIY defence against radioactivity.

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