CNN News: 原创俄罗斯核导弹爆炸?2国宝级科学家身亡

Last Thursday there was an accident. An apparent explosion that killed at least five nuclear scientists at a military test site. But the nation’s government didn’t speak out about it until yesterday when a Russian government spokesman said that accidents happen and that Russia was still quote "far ahead in developing advanced weapons."

上周四俄罗斯发生了一起事故。一个军事试验场发生爆炸，造成至少5名核科学家死亡。但直到昨天，俄罗斯政府发言人才公开表示，事故时有发生，俄罗斯“在研发先进武器方面仍遥遥领先”。

There’s an international mystery surrounding this incident. For one thing, it happened in a city of northern Russia that’s only accessible by permit and it’s closed off to international visitors.

这一事件在国际上仍是个谜。首先，事故发生在俄罗斯北部的一个城市，只有获得许可才能进入，而且此城市不对国际游客开放。

For another, officials in the area said there was a temporary rise in radiation levels after the explosion took place, though the Russian government says radiation levels were normal. Overall, that government has been pretty secretive about this incident in general.

另一方面，该地区的官员说，爆炸发生后辐射水平暂时上升，不过俄罗斯政府说辐射水平正常。总的来说，政府对这一事件一直相当保密。

It says a blast did take place last week but that it involved liquid fuel and all this has analysts around the world speculating, though they don’t know for sure, that the explosion involved a nuclear powered cruise missile. Here’s why that’s significant. Last year Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country had developed new2 weapons. Ones that would make U.S. missile defenses ineffective.

报告说，上周确实发生了爆炸，但爆炸涉及液体燃料，全世界的分析人士都在猜测，虽然他们不能确定，但爆炸可能涉及一枚核动力巡航导弹。这就是为什么很重要。去年，俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京(Vladimir Putin)表示，俄罗斯已经研制出了新型武器。这将使美国的导弹防御系统失效。

He said a new Russian missile would have an unlimited range and suggested it could avoid defense missiles for as long as needed. An accident at a secret military test range could come as an embarrassment to the Russian government and it has a lot of control over the nation’s media so it’s possible that information about this explosion is intentionally being kept quiet, which has some analysts suggesting this is a cover up.

普京表示，一种新的俄罗斯导弹将具有无限的射程，并表示，它可以在需要的时候尽可能长时间地避开防御导弹。事故发生在一个秘密的军事测试范围可能让俄罗斯政府尴尬。同时有很多控制国家的媒体对此次爆炸可能是故意保持沉默，一些分析师认为这是一个掩盖。

Back in 1986 what was then the government of the Soviet Union initially tried to cover up an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. To be clear, whatever happened last Thursday did not appear to have given off a large plume of nuclear radiation like the Chernobyl disaster did but more than 30 years later Chernobyl’s effects are still rippling across Russia.

早在1986年，当时的苏联政府最初试图掩盖切尔诺贝利核电站的爆炸。需要明确的是，无论上周四发生了什么，都没有像切尔诺贝利灾难那样释放出大量的核辐射，但30多年后，切尔诺贝利的影响仍在俄罗斯各地蔓延。