Since 1945, mankind has been living in the atomic age.

自1945年以来 人类就进入到了原子时代。

Indeed, the awg has proposed that the subsequent spike in plutonium-an element which was vanishingly rare before the atomic age-should serve as the " primary marker" for the beginning of the Anthropocene.

事实上，人类世工作组已经提出，钚(一种在原子时代之前非常罕见的元素)随后的峰值应该作为人类世开始的“主要标志”。

In this episode, we're talking with a nuclear historian about the new Christopher Nolan blockbuster, Oppenheimer, a film about one of the most complex and tragic figures of the early atomic age.

在本期节目中，我们将与一位核历史学克里斯托弗·诺兰的最大片《奥本海默》。这部电了早期原子时代最复杂、最可悲的人物之一的故事。

As film critic Darren Mooney wrote in his review of Oppenheimer: " Before the atomic age, the universe was understood through Newtonian physics."

正如评人达伦·穆尼在他对奥本海默的评中所写的那样：“在原子时代之前，人们通过牛顿物理学来理解宇宙。”

It even has a poisonous lake that covers the ruins of civilization, which basically serves as a pre-atomic analog for the radioactive zone that we see in so much 20th century post-apocalyptic fiction.

它甚至拥有一个覆盖文明废墟的毒湖，基本上可以看作是20世纪大量后启示录小说中放射性区域的“前原子时代” 类比。

If that's the case, is this the atomic age beginning nightmarishly so that it doesn't have to end that way someday?

如果真是这样，这是否意味着原子时代以一场噩梦般的方式开始，但有一天它不必以这种方式结束？

But without any of the pesky anxiety of the atomic age, nobody at Coke commercial is worried about getting new.

但没有原子时代那些烦人的焦虑，在可口可乐广告里， 没有人担心变得颖。

Their contrasting approaches to the blues mark a generational shift to a swifter new style for the atomic age.

他们对布鲁斯的不同处理方式标志着代际的转变，迈向了原子时代更为迅捷的风格。

So are we going to be in the atomic age for five human lifetimes or 5,000 human lifetimes?

所以我们会在原子时代停留五个世代还是五千个世代？

Science, meanwhile, was about to get a new age of its own—the atomic one.

与此同时, 科学即将迎来自己的时代 - - 原子时代。

He led science fiction away from simply marveling at the new technology of the atomic age, instead forcing us to question how we use it and what it means for us as a species.

他引领科幻文学脱离了仅仅对原子时代技术的惊叹，转而促使我们思考如何运用这些技术以及它们对我们人类这一物种的意义。

The first was the atomic epoch.

第一个是原子时代。