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This was basically an attempt to teach our schoolchildren
這個算是嘗試著教正在上學的孩子們
that if we did get engaged in a nuclear confrontation and atomic war,
如果我們真的被卷入一次核沖突或者核戰爭
then we wanted our school children to kind of basically duck and cover.
我們希望我們的孩子們迅速躲到桌子下面
That was the principle. You -- there would be a nuclear conflagration about to hit us,
這就是基本的原則，核突擊襲來時
and if you get under your desk, things would be OK.
如果你趴在桌子底下，一切就沒事了
I didn't do all that well in psychiatry in medical school, but I was interested,
我在醫學院的時候，“精神病學”學得并不是很好，但是我很感興趣
and I think this was seriously delusional.
而我真的認為這樣的措施完全是患有妄想癥的表現
Secondly, we told people to go down in their basements and build a fallout shelter.
另外，我們告訴人們躲到地下室去，把那里作為一個放射性微粒掩蔽所
Maybe it would be a study when we weren't having an atomic war,
也許我們可以好好研究研究，如果沒有發生核戰爭
or you could use it as a TV room, or, as many teenagers found out,
我們也許可以把那里當作看電視的房間，又或者，很多青少年會發現
a very, very safe place for a little privacy with your girlfriend.
這一個絕佳的和女朋友呆在一起的私密環境
And actually -- so there are multiple uses of the bomb shelters.
事實上，這個防空洞可以又很多用處
Or you could buy a prefabricated bomb shelter that you could simply bury in the ground.
或者你可以買一個組裝式的防空洞，你需要的只是把它埋到地里
Now, the bomb shelters at that point -- let's say you bought a prefab one
說到防空洞，假如你買了一個組裝式的，
it would be a few hundred dollars, maybe up to 500, if you got a fancy one.
這可能要花幾百美元，如果你買一個好點兒的可能要花掉500美元
Yet, what percentage of Americans do you think ever had a bomb shelter in their house?
但是你們認為有百分之多少的美國人曾經在他們的房子下面建有一個防空洞呢？
What percentage lived in a house with a bomb shelter?
有百分之多少的人住在有防空洞的房子里呢？
Less than two percent.
少于總人口百分之二，
About 1.4 percent of the population, as far as anyone knows, did anything,
只有大概百分之一點四的人，就我們目前所知，曾采取過措施
either making a space in their basement or actually building a bomb shelter.
不管是騰出地下室作為避難所也好，或者是真的建了一個防空洞也好
Many buildings, public buildings, around the country -- this is New York City had these little civil defense signs,
很多建筑--全國各地的公共建筑，這是在紐約--有這樣的民防系統標志
and the idea was that you would run into one of these shelters and be safe from the nuclear weaponry.
這個想法是說如果大家跑到這些避難所里就會安全，不會受到核武器的威脅
