From offices in America’s State Department and Russia’s Ministry of Defence, officials take turns “pinging” each other every couple of hours to check the line is working. Then, almost always, silence. It is the dying heartbeat of global nuclear arms control.
美国国务院和俄罗斯国防部的官员每隔几个小时轮流互相“ping”一次,以检查线路是否正常工作。然后,几乎总是沉默。这是全球核军控的垂死心跳。