2005年NPR美国国家公共电台七月-Photographing the Dawn of the Nuclear Age

Sixty years ago tomorrow, a young man named Jack¹ Aeby snapped one of history's most important photographs -- the only color picture of the first atomic bomb test. Aeby was a 21-year-old amateur photographer. He was working as a technician on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos.
On the morning of July 16, 1945, he was granted permission to photograph a top-secret test. It was code named Trinity.
It was very hard to get color film during the war, a friend of mine cut me off a three-foot chunk² of a hundred foot roll he had, and I took it to Trinity and I used that as the last roll of film I put in the camera.
I walked out just a bit north of base camp. I used a chair as a tripod, sat in the seat with the back facing the detonation³ area, and rested the camera on the back of the chair. I managed to choose a wide-open exposure and aimed it in the proper direction. The countdown went to zero, the whole world lit up all of a sudden, I snapped three pictures on that roll of color film in rapid succession just as fast as I could wind it forward and shoot.
I developed the film myself in Los Alamos, and about the middle picture was about correctly, and I must admit by a series accident, correctly exposed.

A star-shaped crater⁴ marks the New Mexican Desert near Alamogordo, where the first atomic bomb was tested. The crystallized sand has the appearance of green glass.
I know it was a good photograph, but I hadn't the slightest idea that it was going to be only one color photograph of the detonation.
Press representatives get a personally conducted tour by General Grove⁵.
It wasn't long unti General Grove wanted the negative.
Other than the people of Los Alamos, the next three people who saw the picture were Winston Churchill, Mr. Stalin and Harry⁶ Truman.
Amateur photographer Jack Aeby is now 82 years old, his recollections come to us via Sound Portraits in New York. To see the picture of the test, you can go to npr.org.

1 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

2 chunk   

n.厚片，大块，相当大的部分（数量）

参考例句：

• They had to be careful of floating chunks of ice.他们必须当心大块浮冰。
• The company owns a chunk of farmland near Gatwick Airport.该公司拥有盖特威克机场周边的大片农田。

3 detonation   

n.爆炸；巨响

参考例句：

• A fearful detonation burst forth on the barricade.街垒传来一阵骇人的爆炸声。
• Within a few hundreds of microseconds,detonation is complete.在几百微秒之内，爆炸便完成了。

4 crater   

n.火山口，弹坑

参考例句：

• With a telescope you can see the huge crater of Ve-suvius.用望远镜你能看到巨大的维苏威火山口。
• They came to the lip of a dead crater.他们来到了一个死火山口。

5 grove   

n.林子，小树林，园林

参考例句：

• On top of the hill was a grove of tall trees.山顶上一片高大的树林。
• The scent of lemons filled the grove.柠檬香味充满了小树林。

6 harry   

vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼

参考例句：

• Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
• Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。