这让我想起一本引人入胜的书，叫《The Red Atlas》（作者 John Davies 和 Alexander Kent），讲的是冷战期间苏联绘制的极其详尽的西方城市地图。
This reminds me of a fascinating book titled "The Red Atlas" by John Davies and Alexander Kent which is about the very detailed maps of Western cities the Soviet Union created during the Cold War.
……现在看来成本很低，但在冷战时期这种思维完全说得过去，那时想从远处测绘地图确实极其困难（有本关于这个题材的书叫《The Red Atlas》，既精彩又漂亮）。俗话说将领往往是在打上一场战争，或许这就是为什么中国在卫星和 GPS 时代依然选择将地图混淆。
…cheap today, this sort of thinking wasn’t entirely unreasonable back during the cold war, when maps truly were hard to develop from afar (there’s a brilliant and beautiful book on this subject called “The Red Atlas”). There’s a saying that generals often fight the last war, maybe that’s why China chose to obfuscate their maps well into the satellite and GPS era.
这让我想起一本引人入胜的书，叫《The Red Atlas》（作者 John Davies 和 Alexander Kent），讲的是冷战期间苏联绘制的极其详尽的西方城市地图。
This reminds me of a fascinating book titled "The Red Atlas" by John Davies and Alexander Kent which is about the very detailed maps of Western cities the Soviet Union created during the Cold War.
你应该会喜欢 John Davies 和 Alexander Kent 写的《The Red Atlas》。里面收录了冷战时期苏联为西方世界绘制的大量地图。
You could like The Red Atlas by John Davies and Alexander Kent. It is full of maps made by the Soviets for the Western world during the Cold War.
……现在看来成本很低，但在冷战时期这种思维完全说得过去，那时想从远处测绘地图确实极其困难（有本关于这个题材的书叫《The Red Atlas》，既精彩又漂亮）。俗话说将领往往是在打上一场战争，或许这就是为什么中国在卫星和 GPS 时代依然选择将地图混淆。
…cheap today, this sort of thinking wasn’t entirely unreasonable back during the cold war, when maps truly were hard to develop from afar (there’s a brilliant and beautiful book on this subject called “The Red Atlas”). There’s a saying that generals often fight the last war, maybe that’s why China chose to obfuscate their maps well into the satellite and GPS era.