否则（我们现在就没有做到 ） ， 欧洲大西洋国家及其组织将在应对二十一世纪的安全挑战，包括核扩散威胁方面退而求其次，而此类折衷方案其力度通常远远不够。
Failing that (and we are failing today) the Euro-Atlantic states and their organizations will settle for suboptimal – and too often utterly inadequate – responses to the twenty-first century’s security challenges, including the threat of nuclear proliferation.