But just three days later, on a day they called Red Monday, the media and the politicians told us, and we believed, that Sputnik was proof that our enemy had beaten us in science and technology, and that they could now attack us with hydrogen bombs, using their Sputnik rocket as an IBM missile.
但是仅仅三天之后，这天他们称为红色星期一 媒体和政治家们告诉我们 人造卫星证明了 我们的敌人 在科技上超越了我们 并且他们能够将人造卫星用作IBM  利用将人造卫星运载火箭作为IBM（ICBM洲际导弹）。