在诞生于20世纪的新技术中,最具国际政治重要性的大概是核武器。核武器不但在量上(即毁伤力的大小上)、也在质上不同于任何先前的或常规的武器。一方面,核武器技术造成了“核大国”与无核国家的区别,从而使国际社会变得更不均等,然而另一方面,核武器又倾向于在某种意义上缩小大 Among the new technologies born in the twentieth century, the most international and political importance is probably nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are qualitatively different from any prior or conventional weapon not only in terms of quantity (that is, in terms of the magnitude of the damage). On the one hand, nuclear weapons technology has created the distinction between “nuclear powers” and non-nuclear countries, thereby making the international community more unequal. On the other hand, however, nuclear weapons tend to be somewhat smaller in size