My Sunday newspaper carried a story about the Russian military resuming strategic bombing patrols along the Russian-US border.我的周日报纸进行讲述俄罗斯军方恢复战略轰炸机巡逻，俄美两国边界。 Read the story here .阅读的故事在这里 。 A big step backwards and a reminder of cold-war times.一大倒退，并提醒冷战时代。 There are a few things that can make life on this little planet very unpleasant; and I mean for the average reasonably well-to-do American.有几件事，可以使生活在这个小小的星球非常的不愉快;和我的意思是平均合理小康美国。 These are这些都是

  1. The impact to a comet or asteroid a la KT. 影响到彗星或小行星的KT一拉。
  2. A supernova explosion of a nearby star (less than 200 LY away, say). 超新星爆炸的恒星附近（不到200淋巴细胞消失，说） 。
  3. Nuclear War.核战争。

It is hard to put any numbers on the probability of any of those potential show-stoppers, but the third one has just become a good deal more likely.这是很难将任何号码的概率的任何潜在的展示塞子，但第三个刚刚成为一个很好的处理更容易。 To my surprise, no one seems to care a great deal.如果要我吃惊的是，似乎没有人照顾了很多。 Some people think that nuclear confrontation is highly likely in the near future. See the insightful article by Robert S. McNamara, Apocalypse Soon .有些人认为，核对抗很有可能在不久的将来。见见地的文章， 罗伯特麦克纳马拉，不久的启示 。 Our current administration can only be described as incompetent to allow this threat to increase.我们目前的管理只能被描述为不称职，使这一威胁增加。 Instead of the usual confrontational course that is a hallmark of the Bush administration, dialog with the current Russian administration is likely to reduce the thread of nuclear confrontation.而不是通常的对抗当然这是一个标志的布什政府来说，对话与目前的俄罗斯政府很可能会减少线程的核对抗。