For many years the argument that the clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki quickly ended the war has been a stock in trade of discussions over the role of nuclear weapons.
多年以来，在针对核武的讨论当中，广岛和长崎的蘑菇云促进了战争结束的观点一直都存有争议。
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Before the war this man had been a chef, and his one crime was feeding the people who sat at his tables in small clouds of smoke and talked politics.
战前这人是个厨师，他的一项罪名是为前来就餐的人们提供食物，这些人吸着香烟吞云吐雾谈论政事。
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Every once in a while, we push hard enough that the light breaks through the clouds, so the world beyond the war glimmers.