1962年的“天空闪电”危机,不仅重创了当时的美英特殊关系,而且对英国的核战略产生了深远的影响,其涟漪今天仍然清晰可见。那么,“天空闪电”危机究竟是怎么一回事呢?1952年成功试爆原子弹后,英国成了继美、苏之后世界上第三个拥有核武器的国家。1957年,英国又在太平洋圣诞岛成功地进行了氢弹试验,成为世界上第三个真正掌握热核技术的国家。同时, The “lightning in the sky” crisis of 1962 not only inflicted a special relationship between the United States and Britain at that time, but also had a profound impact on Britain’s nuclear strategy. The ripple still remains clear today. So, what is the “Sky Lightning Crisis”? After the successful test explosion of the atomic bomb in 1952, the United Kingdom became the third country in the world possessing nuclear weapons after the United States and the Soviet Union. In 1957, Britain successfully conducted a hydrogen bomb test on Christmas Island in the Pacific, making it the third country in the world to really master the thermonuclear technology. Simultaneously,