首先，这些武器应当只在遭受核袭击后反击时才使用。其次，这些武器的拥有必须是一种临时的应急手段。

First, the weapons should be intended for use only in retaliation after a nuclear attack. Second, the possession of the weapons must be a temporary expedient.

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不能在反击中使用重武器也起到推波助澜的作用。

So did their inability to use heavy weapons in counter-attacks.

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这个时期的普京重拳打击反对派和媒体，牢牢掌握了国家对能源资产的控制权，并使用冷战风格的语言反击西方。

This Putin has clamped down aggressively on opposition and the media, grabbed state control of energy assets and used cold war-style rhetoric against the west.

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