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The uncertain choice to use a dimension-reducing weapon

Tentatively yes, although using them and declining to use them both create strategic problems.

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Question

Would you use the dimension-reducing weapons in The Three-Body Problem, and how?

Short answer

Tentatively yes, although using them and declining to use them both create strategic problems.

Notes

Using a dimension-reducing weapon creates consequences of its own. Refusing to use it can still leave a problem that requires some other response. The tentative willingness to use one does not resolve those strategic difficulties. A gap in the captions prevents a fuller reconstruction of the answer.