And forget using jet fighters armed with short-range weapons to attack the American navy.

并且，忘掉用装备有短程武器的喷气战斗机来袭击美国海军这回事吧。

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American military officers at the time were not opposed to using nuclear weapons in a last-ditch effort to save South Vietnam.

ECONOMIST: The first Vietnam war

China is thought to be using intelligence to steer the development of its own weapons, rather than to reproduce American designs.

ECONOMIST: Assessing the nuclear fallout