特朗普总统于9月22日在纽约市联合国总部举行的第81届联合国大会会议上发表讲话。
President Trump speaks during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Sept. 22.
奇普·索莫德维拉/盖蒂图片/盖蒂图片北美 本周，特朗普总统在联合国大会上表示，他曾问自己，是应该与伊朗达成协议，还是……“我要摧毁伊斯兰共和国……我要把他们打进地狱，让他们毫无生还机会，也看不到未来的繁荣或后代？”对于一位能够号令军队推进、导弹飞驰的领导人来说，这番话尤其令人不寒而栗。
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Getty Images North America The world took note when President Trump told the United Nations General Assembly this week that he had asked himself whether to make a deal with Iran - or... "Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic…"Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?" Those words seem especially forbidding from a leader who can command armies to march and missiles to fly.
1945年8月6日，哈里·杜鲁门总统向世界宣布，美国已向日本广岛投下第一枚原子弹。这枚炸弹当场造成约7万人死亡。数日后，又有约4万人在长崎遇难；在此后的数日、数周、数月乃至数年间，另有数万人死于辐射病。
On August 6, 1945, President Harry Truman told the world the United States had dropped the first atomic bomb, on Hiroshima, Japan. It instantly killed an estimated 70,000 people. Some 40,000 more died days later in Nagasaki, and tens of thousands more from radiation illnesses in the days, weeks, months and years thereafter.
在宣布对广岛实施核打击的演讲中，杜鲁门总统将其称为“驾驭宇宙基本力量”，并告诫要“保护世界免受突然毁灭的危险”。
In his speech announcing the nuclear attack on Hiroshima, President Truman called it "a harnessing of the basic power of the universe," and added cautions about "protecting the world from the danger of sudden destruction."
自那以后，核武器再未在战争中使用过。杜鲁门的继任者在谈及核武器时，措辞都格外审慎。正如罗纳德·里根总统所言：“核战争无法取胜，也绝不应被发动。”
Nuclear weapons have not been used in war since. And Truman's successors have been pointedly measured when they talk about them. As President Ronald Reagan put it, "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought."
1962年，当约翰·F·肯尼迪总统下令美国海军封锁古巴，以阻止苏联部署核导弹时，他对美国民众说：“我们不会过早或无谓地冒全球核战争的风险，在那场战争中，即便胜利的果实，也只会化作我们口中的灰烬。”
When President John F. Kennedy ordered US ships to blockade Cuba to prevent the Soviet Union from installing nuclear missiles in 1962, he told Americans, "We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth."
1974年，杰拉尔德·福特总统在联合国大会上表示：“一个严酷的现实数十年来一直制约着美国的行动，如今也必须制约所有国家的行动。在核时代防止全面战争已成为每个人的责任。今天的地区冲突，绝不能演变成明天的全球灾难。”
In 1974, President Gerald Ford told the U.N. General Assembly, "A very stark reality has tempered America's actions for decades and must now temper the actions of all nations. Prevention of full-scale warfare in the nuclear age has become everybody's responsibility. Today's regional conflict must not become tomorrow's world disaster."
2017年，奥巴马总统参观了如今矗立在广岛的和平公园，并说道：“在我们这样拥有核武库的国家中，我们必须有勇气摆脱恐惧的逻辑，追求一个没有核武器的世界。”
And in 2017, President Obama visited the Peace Park that now stands in Hiroshima and said, "Among those nations like my own that hold nuclear stockpiles, we must have the courage to escape the logic of fear and pursue a world without them."
这些都是宣誓保卫美国的总统们发出的强烈言辞。如此有力且审慎，以至于他们或许觉得无需再附加毁灭性的威胁，以及“毫无生还希望……”之类的警告。
All strong words from presidents sworn to protect the United States. So strong and measured, they might have felt it wasn't necessary to add threats of annihilation, and "no chance of survival…"