Good evening, my fellow citizens: 晚上好，我的美国同胞们：
This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere. 本届政府一如既往地对苏联在古巴岛上的军事集结保持着最密切的监视。在过去一周内，确凿的证据已经表明，一系列进攻性导弹发射场正在那个被囚禁的岛屿上修建。这些基地的目的只能是为了对西半球提供核打击能力。
Upon receiving the first preliminary hard information of this nature last Tuesday morning at 9 A.M., I directed that our surveillance be stepped up. And having now confirmed and completed our evaluation of the evidence and our decision on a course of action, this Government feels obliged to report this new crisis to you in fullest detail. 在上周二上午9点收到这一性质的初步重要情报后，我指示加强我们的监视力度。在确认并完成了对证据的评估以及对行动方案的决策之后，本届政府认为有责任向你们最详尽地报告这一新的危机。
The characteristics of these new missile sites indicate two distinct types of installations. Several of them include medium range ballistic missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead for a distance of more than 1,000 nautical miles. Each of these missiles, in short, is capable of striking Washington, D. C., the Panama Canal, Cape Canaveral, Mexico City, or any other city in the southeastern part of the United States, in Central America, or in the Caribbean area. 这些新导弹发射场的特点表明存在两种不同类型的设施。其中一些包括能够携带核弹头、射程超过1000海里的中程弹道导弹。简而言之，每一枚这种导弹都能够打击华盛顿特区、巴拿马运河、卡纳维拉尔角、墨西哥城，或美国东南部、中美洲或加勒比海地区的任何其他城市。
Additional sites not yet completed appear to be designed for intermediate range ballistic missiles -- capable of traveling more than twice as far -- and thus capable of striking most of the major cities in the Western Hemisphere, ranging as far north as Hudson's Bay, Canada, and as far south as Lima, Peru. In addition, jet bombers, capable of carrying nuclear weapons, are now being uncrated and assembled in Cuba, while the necessary air bases are being prepared. 其他尚未完工的发射场似乎设计用于中远程弹道导弹——射程是前者的两倍多——因此能够打击西半球的大多数主要城市，北至加拿大的哈德逊湾，南至秘鲁的利马。此外，能够携带核武器的喷气式轰炸机正在古巴被开箱组装，同时必要的空军基地也在准备中。
This urgent transformation of Cuba into an important strategic base -- by the presence of these large, long-range, and clearly offensive weapons of sudden mass destruction -- constitutes an explicit threat to the peace and security of all the Americas, in flagrant and deliberate defiance of the Rio Pact of 1947, the traditions of this nation and hemisphere, the joint resolution of the 87th Congress, the Charter of the United Nations, and my own public warnings to the Soviets on September 4th and 13th. 古巴被紧急转变为一个重要的战略基地——这些大型、远程、明显具有进攻性的大规模杀伤性武器的存在——构成了对所有美洲国家和平与安全的明确威胁，公然和蓄意地违反了1947年《里约条约》、本国家和本半球的传统、第87届国会的联合决议、《联合国宪章》，以及我在9月4日和13日向苏联发出的公开警告。
This action also contradicts the repeated assurances of Soviet spokesmen, both publicly and privately delivered, that the arms buildup in Cuba would retain its original defensive character, and that the Soviet Union had no need or desire to station strategic missiles on the territory of any other nation. 这一行动也与苏联发言人反复作出的保证相矛盾，无论是公开还是私下传递的保证都声称，古巴的武器集结将保持其原有的防御性质，苏联没有需要或意愿在任何其他国家领土上部署战略导弹。
The size of this undertaking makes clear that it has been planned for some months. Yet, only last month, after I had made clear the distinction between any introduction of ground-to-ground missiles and the existence of defensive antiaircraft missiles, the Soviet Government publicly stated on September 11th that, and I quote, "the armaments and military equipment sent to Cuba are designed exclusively for defensive purposes," unquote. 这一事业的规模清楚地表明它已经规划了数月之久。然而，就在上个月，在我明确区分了地对地导弹的任何引入与防御性防空导弹的存在之后，苏联政府于9月11日公开声明——我引用原话——"运往古巴的军备和军事设备完全是为了防御目的"，原话结束。
That there is, and I quote the Soviet Government, "there is no need for the Soviet Government to shift its weapons for a retaliatory blow to any other country, for instance Cuba," unquote; and that, and I quote their government, "the Soviet Union has so powerful rockets to carry these nuclear warheads that there is no need to search for sites for them beyond the boundaries of the Soviet Union," unquote. 还有——我引用苏联政府的话——"苏联政府没有必要将其武器转移到任何其他国家进行报复性打击，例如古巴"，原话结束；还有——我引用他们政府的话——"苏联拥有如此强大的火箭来携带这些核弹头，因此没有必要在苏联境外寻找部署地点"，原话结束。
That statement was false. 那个声明是假的。
Only last Thursday, as evidence of this rapid offensive buildup was already in my hand, Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko told me in my office that he was instructed to make it clear once again, as he said his government had already done, that Soviet assistance to Cuba, and I quote, "pursued solely the purpose of contributing to the defense capabilities of Cuba," unquote. 就在上周四，当我已经掌握了这种进攻性集结的证据时，苏联外长葛罗米柯在我的办公室里告诉我，他被指示再次明确表示——正如他所说他的政府已经做过的——苏联对古巴的援助，我引用原话——"纯粹是为了促进古巴的防御能力"，原话结束。
That, and I quote him, "training by Soviet specialists of Cuban nationals in handling defensive armaments was by no means offensive, and if it were otherwise," Mr. Gromyko went on, "the Soviet Government would never become involved in rendering such assistance," unquote. 还有——我引用他的话——"苏联专家对古巴国民进行防御性武器操作的培训绝不是进攻性的，如果情况并非如此，"葛罗米柯先生继续说，"苏联政府永远不会参与提供这种援助，"原话结束。
That statement also was false. 那个声明也是假的。
Neither the United States of America nor the world community of nations can tolerate deliberate deception and offensive threats on the part of any nation, large or small. We no longer live in a world where only the actual firing of weapons represents a sufficient challenge to a nation's security to constitute maximum peril. Nuclear weapons are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so swift, that any substantially increased possibility of their use or any sudden change in their deployment may well be regarded as a definite threat to peace. 无论是美国还是国际社会，都不能容忍任何国家——无论大小——的蓄意欺骗和进攻性威胁。我们不再生活在一个只有实际发射武器才对国家安全构成充分挑战、从而构成最大危险的世界里。核武器的破坏性如此之大，弹道导弹的速度如此之快，以至于它们使用的可能性大幅增加，或者其部署的任何突然变化，都可能被视为对和平的明确威胁。
For many years, both the Soviet Union and the United States, recognizing this fact, have deployed strategic nuclear weapons with great care, never upsetting the precarious status quo which insured that these weapons would not be used in the absence of some vital challenge. 多年来，苏联和美国都认识到这一事实，在部署战略核武器时都极为谨慎，从未打破确保这些武器在没有某种重大挑战的情况下不会被使用的不稳定的现状。
Our own strategic missiles have never been transferred to the territory of any other nation under a cloak of secrecy and deception; and our history -- unlike that of the Soviets since the end of World War II -- demonstrates that we have no desire to dominate or conquer any other nation or impose our system upon its people. Nevertheless, American citizens have become adjusted to living daily on the bullseye of Soviet missiles located inside the U.S.S.R. or in submarines. 我们自己的战略导弹从未在秘密和欺骗的外衣下被转移到任何其他国家的领土上；我们的历史——与二战结束以来苏联的历史不同——表明我们没有支配或征服任何其他国家或将我们的制度强加给其人民的愿望。尽管如此，美国公民已经习惯了每天生活在苏联导弹的瞄准点上，这些导弹部署在苏联境内或潜艇上。
In that sense, missiles in Cuba add to an already clear and present danger -- although it should be noted the nations of Latin America had never previously been subjected to a potential nuclear threat. 从这个意义上说，古巴的导弹加剧了原本就存在的、明确而现实的危险——尽管应该指出，拉丁美洲国家以前从未遭受过潜在的核威胁。
But this secret, swift, extraordinary buildup of Communist missiles -- 但是，这种秘密、迅速、非同寻常的共产主义导弹集结——
in an area well known to have a special and historical relationship to the United States and the nations of the Western Hemisphere, in violation of Soviet assurances, and in defiance of American and hemispheric policy -- this sudden, clandestine decision to station strategic weapons for the first time outside of Soviet soil -- is a deliberately provocative and unjustified change in the status quo which cannot be accepted by this country, if our courage and our commitments are ever to be trusted again by either friend or foe. 在一个与美国和西半球国家有着特殊和历史关系的地区，违反苏联的保证，蔑视美国和半球政策——这一突然、秘密的决定，首次在苏联境外部署战略武器——是对现状的蓄意挑衅和无理改变，这个国家不能接受，如果我们的勇气和承诺要再次得到朋友或敌人的信任。
The 1930's taught us a clear lesson: Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war. This nation is opposed to war. We are also true to our word. Our unswerving objective, therefore, must be to prevent the use of these missiles against this or any other country, and to secure their withdrawal or elimination from the Western Hemisphere. 20世纪30年代给我们了一个明确的教训：侵略行为，如果任由其不受约束和不受挑战地进行，最终会导致战争。这个国家反对战争。我们也忠于我们的誓言。因此，我们坚定不移的目标必须是防止这些导弹被用于对付这个或任何其他国家，并确保它们从西半球撤出或被消除。
Our policy has been one of patience and restraint, as befits a peaceful and powerful nation which leads a worldwide alliance. We have been determined not to be diverted from our central concerns by mere irritants and fanatics. But now further action is required, and it is under way; and these actions may only be the beginning. We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth; but neither will we shrink from that risk at any time it must be faced. 我们的政策一直是耐心和克制的政策，这符合一个领导全球联盟的和平而强大的国家的身份。我们决心不被纯粹的刺激因素和狂热分子从我们的核心关切中转移。但现在需要采取进一步的行动，而且行动正在进行中；这些行动可能仅仅是开始。我们不会过早或不必要地冒全球核战争的代价，在那场战争中，即使是胜利的果实也只是我们口中的灰烬；但我们也不会在任何时候必须面对这种风险时退缩。
Acting, therefore, in the defense of our own security and of the entire Western Hemisphere, and under the authority entrusted to me by the Constitution as endorsed by the Resolution of the Congress, I have directed that the following initial steps be taken immediately: 因此，为了捍卫我们自己的安全和整个西半球，并根据宪法赋予我的权力和国会决议的认可，我已指示立即采取以下初步步骤：
First: To halt this offensive buildup a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba is being initiated. All ships of any kind bound for Cuba from whatever nation or port will, if found to contain cargoes of offensive weapons, be turned back. This quarantine will be extended, if needed, to other types of cargo and carriers. We are not at this time, however, denying the necessities of life as the Soviets attempted to do in their Berlin blockade of 1948. 第一：为了阻止这种进攻性集结，正在启动对所有运往古巴的进攻性军事装备的严格隔离。任何来自任何国家或港口、驶向古巴的船只，如被发现载有进攻性武器货物，将被遣返。如有需要，这一隔离将扩大到其他类型的货物和承运商。然而，我们目前并未拒绝生活必需品，正如苏联在1948年的柏林封锁中试图做的那样。
Second: I have directed the continued and increased close surveillance of Cuba and its military buildup. The foreign ministers of the OAS [Organization of American States], in their communiqué of October 6, rejected secrecy on such matters in this hemisphere. 第二：我已指示继续并加强对古巴及其军事集结的密切监视。美洲国家组织的外长们在10月6日的公报中拒绝在这个半球对此类事项保密。
Should these offensive military preparations continue, thus increasing the threat to the hemisphere, further action will be justified. I have directed the Armed Forces to prepare for any eventualities; and I trust that in the interest of both the Cuban people and the Soviet technicians at the sites, the hazards to all concerned of continuing this threat will be recognized. 如果这些进攻性军事准备继续下去，从而增加对半球的威胁，进一步的行动将是正当的。我已指示武装力量为任何意外情况做好准备；我相信，出于古巴人民和发射场的苏联技术人员的利益，所有人都会认识到继续这种威胁的危害。
Third: It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union. 第三：本国家的政策是，将从古巴向西半球任何国家发射的任何核导弹视为苏联对美国的攻击，要求对苏联进行全面报复性回应。
Fourth: As a necessary military precaution, I have reinforced our base at Guantanamo, evacuated today the dependents of our personnel there, and ordered additional military units to be on a standby alert basis. 第四：作为必要的军事预防措施，我已加强了我们在关塔那摩的基地，今天疏散了那里人员的家属，并下令额外的军事单位进入待命警戒状态。
Fifth: We are calling tonight for an immediate meeting of the Organization of Consultation under the Organization of American States, to consider this threat to hemispheric security and to invoke articles 6 and 8 of the Rio Treaty in support of all necessary action. The United Nations Charter allows for regional security arrangements, and the nations of this hemisphere decided long ago against the military presence of outside powers. Our other allies around the world have also been alerted. 第五：我们今晚呼吁召开美洲国家组织磋商会议，以审议对半球安全的这一威胁，并援引《里约条约》第6条和第8条支持一切必要行动。《联合国宪章》允许区域安全安排，这个半球的国家很久以前就决定反对外部大国的军事存在。我们在世界各地的其他盟国也已得到警报。
Sixth: Under the Charter of the United Nations, we are asking tonight that an emergency meeting of the Security Council be convoked, without delay, to take action against this latest Soviet threat to world peace. Our resolution will call for the prompt dismantling and withdrawal of all offensive weapons in Cuba under the supervision of U.N. observers, before the quarantine can be lifted. 第六：根据《联合国宪章》，我们今晚要求立即召开安理会紧急会议，对苏联这一最新的世界和平威胁采取行动。我们的决议将要求在联合国观察员监督下迅速拆除和撤出古巴的所有进攻性武器，在隔离解除之前。
Seventh and finally: I call upon Chairman Khrushchev to halt and eliminate this clandestine, reckless, and provocative threat to world peace and to stable relations between our two nations. I call upon him further to abandon this course of world domination, and to join in an historic effort to end the perilous arms race and to transform the history of man. 第七也是最后：我呼吁赫鲁晓夫主席停止并消除这种秘密、鲁莽和挑衅性的对世界和平和我们两国稳定关系的威胁。我进一步呼吁他放弃这种世界统治的进程，加入一项历史性的努力来结束危险的军备竞赛并改变人类历史。
He has an opportunity now to move the world back from the abyss of destruction by returning to his government's own words that it had "no need" to station missiles outside its own territory, and withdrawing these weapons from Cuba by refraining from any action which will widen or deepen the present crisis, and then by participating in a search for peaceful and permanent solutions. 他现在有机会通过回到他政府自己的说法——即它"没有需要"在其自己领土之外部署导弹——来将世界从毁灭的边缘拉回来，通过撤回这些古巴武器、避免任何会扩大或加深当前危机的行动，然后通过参与寻求和平与永久的解决方案。
This nation is prepared to present its case against the Soviet threat to peace, and our own proposals for a peaceful world, at any time and in any forum -- in the OAS, in the United Nations, or in any other meeting that could be useful -- without limiting our freedom of action. 本国家准备在任何时候和任何论坛——在美洲国家组织、在联合国或在任何其他可能有用的会议上——陈述我们反对苏联对和平威胁的理由以及我们对和平世界的建议，而不限制我们的行动自由。
We have in the past made strenuous efforts to limit the spread of nuclear weapons. We have proposed the elimination of all arms and military bases in a fair and effective disarmament treaty. We are prepared to discuss new proposals for the removal of tensions on both sides, including the possibilities of a genuinely independent Cuba, free to determine its own destiny. We have no wish to war with the Soviet Union -- for we are a peaceful people who desire to live in peace with all other peoples. 我们过去在限制核武器扩散方面作出了艰苦的努力。我们已经提议在公平和有效的裁军条约中消除所有武器和军事基地。我们准备讨论关于双方消除紧张局势的新建议，包括一个真正独立的古巴的可能性，让它自由决定自己的命运。我们不想与苏联交战——因为我们是一个爱好和平的人民，希望与所有其他人民和平相处。
But it is difficult to settle or even discuss these problems in an atmosphere of intimidation. That is why this latest Soviet threat -- or any other threat which is made either independently or in response to our actions this week -- must and will be met with determination. Any hostile move anywhere in the world against the safety and freedom of peoples to whom we are committed, including in particular the brave people of West Berlin, will be met by whatever action is needed. 但是，在恐吓的氛围中解决或讨论这些问题是困难的。这就是为什么苏联这一最新威胁——或任何其他在本周内独立或回应我们行动的威胁——必须并将以决心予以回应。世界任何地方对我们所承诺的人民的安全和自由的任何敌对行动，包括特别是西柏林的勇敢人民，都将遭到一切必要的行动予以回应。
Finally, I want to say a few words to the captive people of Cuba, to whom this speech is being directly carried by special radio facilities. I speak to you as a friend, as one who knows of your deep attachment to your Fatherland, as one who shares your aspirations for liberty and justice for all. And I have watched and the American people have watched with deep sorrow how your nationalist revolution was betrayed -- and how your Fatherland fell under foreign domination. 最后，我想对被囚禁的古巴人民说几句话，这个演讲正在通过特殊的广播设施直接传递给他们。我作为一个朋友对你们说话，作为一个知道你们深深热爱祖国的人，作为一个与你们所有人共享自由与正义愿望的人。我已经看到，美国人民也看到了，你们的民族革命如何被背叛——以及你们的祖国如何陷入外国统治之下。
Now your leaders are no longer Cuban leaders inspired by Cuban ideals. They are puppets and agents of an international conspiracy which has turned Cuba against your friends and neighbors in the Americas, and turned it into the first Latin American country to become a target for nuclear war -- the first Latin American country to have these weapons on its soil. 现在你们的领导人不再是受古巴理想激励的古巴领导人。他们是一个国际阴谋的傀儡和代理人，这个阴谋把古巴变成了你们在美洲的朋友和邻居的敌人，并把它变成了第一个成为核战争目标的拉丁美洲国家——第一个在其土地上拥有这些武器的拉丁美洲国家。
These new weapons are not in your interest. They contribute nothing to your peace and well-being. They can only undermine it. But this country has no wish to cause you to suffer or to impose any system upon you. We know that your lives and land are being used as pawns by those who deny your freedom. 这些新武器不符合你们的利益。它们对你们的和平与福祉毫无贡献。它们只会破坏它。但是，这个国家不想让你们受苦或把任何制度强加给你们。我们知道，你们的生命和土地正在被那些否认你们自由的人用作棋子。
Many times in the past, the Cuban people have risen to throw out tyrants who destroyed their liberty. And I have no doubt that most Cubans today look forward to the time when they will be truly free -- free from foreign domination, free to choose their own leaders, free to select their own system, free to own their own land, free to speak and write and worship without fear or degradation. And then shall Cuba be welcomed back to the society of free nations and to the associations of this hemisphere. 在过去，古巴人民多次起义推翻了摧毁他们自由的暴君。我毫不怀疑，今天大多数古巴人期待着他们真正获得自由的那一天——不受外国统治，自由选择自己的领导人，自由选择自己的制度，自由拥有自己的土地，自由说话、写作和崇拜而不受恐惧或侮辱。到那时，古巴将被欢迎回到自由国家的社会和这个半球的协会中。
My fellow citizens, let no one doubt that this is a difficult and dangerous effort on which we have set out. No one can foresee precisely what course it will take or what costs or casualties will be incurred. Many months of sacrifice and self-discipline lie ahead -- months in which both our patience and our will will be tested, months in which many threats and denunciations will keep us aware of our dangers. But the greatest danger of all would be to do nothing. 我的美国同胞们，让任何人都不要怀疑，这是一项我们已经开始的困难而危险的努力。没有人能准确预见它将采取什么路线，或会产生什么代价或伤亡。前方有许多个月的牺牲和自律——在这些月份里，我们的耐心和意志都将受到考验，在这些月份里，许多威胁和谴责将让我们意识到我们的危险。但最大的危险将是什么都不做。
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are; but it is the one most consistent with our character and courage as a nation and our commitments around the world. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender or submission. 我们目前选择的道路充满了危险，正如所有道路都是如此；但它是最符合我们作为一个国家的品格和勇气以及我们在世界各地的承诺的道路。自由的代价总是高昂的，但美国人总是愿意付出。我们永不选择的道路是投降或屈服。
Our goal is not the victory of might, but the vindication of right; not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere, and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved. 我们的目标不是武力的胜利，而是正义的伸张；不是以自由为代价的和平，而是和平与自由兼得，在这个半球，并且我们希望，在全世界。愿上帝保佑，这个目标将会实现。
Thank you and good night. 谢谢大家，晚安。
