Then at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s, the US government made the misguided decision to build highways as a defense strategy, assuming suburbanization would protect the nation from catastrophic loss of life in the event of nuclear war.

• 然后，在50年代和60年代冷战高峰时期，美国政府作出了修建高速公路作为防御战略的错误决定，以为城市郊区化可以在一旦发生的核战争中保护国家免受灾难性的人员伤亡。