摘要：曼哈顿计划的原子弹如何发展为当今的核武储备？美国核安全体系的核心坐落于一座小镇 —— 洛斯阿拉莫斯。这里是人类首枚核弹的诞生地。如今，该地的国家实验室正承担着一项重大使命：研制美国近几十年来首款新型核弹头。

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The bomb (part 2): the atomic town

核弹（ 2 ）：原子城往事

Our podcast on science and technology. The second episode of our four - part series on the past, present and future of nuclear weapons

经济学人 的科技主题播客。 这是探讨核武器历史、现状与未来四部曲系列 的第二集

How did the atom bombs of the Manhattan Project become the nuclear stockpile of today? At the heart of America’s nuclear security enterprise lies a town: Los Alamos. It is where the first nuclear bomb was created. Today its national lab is tasked with designing and building America’s first new warhead in decades.

曼哈顿计划的原子弹如何发展为当今的核武储备？美国核安全体系的核心坐落于一座小镇 —— 洛斯阿拉莫斯。这里是人类首枚核弹的诞生地。如今，该地的国家实验室正承担着一项重大使命：研制美国近几十年来首款新型核弹头。

This four - part series traces the scientific story of nuclear weapons. We go behind the scenes at America’s nuclear - weapons laboratories to find out how the country is pushing the frontiers of extreme physics, materials science and computing to modernise its stockpile.

本四集系列专题将追溯核武器发展的科学历程。我们走进美国核武器实验室的幕后，揭秘该国如何通过突破极端物理学、材料科学与计算技术的极限，来实现其核武库的现代化升级。

In episode two, we look at the town that built the first nuclear bomb—and how the race to build better, more powerful nuclear weapons ended up building the town.

第二集将带您探访首颗原子弹的诞生地，揭示这场竞相研发更先进、更具威力核武器的竞赛，如何意外塑造了这座城镇的命运。

The Economist

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Drive out from the center of Santa Fe in northern New Mexico, and you quickly get to some spectacular scenery. The Jemez Mountains are in front, and Guaje Mountain, the north mesa, that's over there, Garcia Canyon, Santa Clara Canyon, the one behind us, Cedro, lots of canyons. It turns out we were actually alongside the Pueblo Canyon. Imagine something like the Grand Canyon, just on a slightly smaller scale.

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