conventional
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He also said the regime was “rapidly and dramatically” building a conventional weapons program, which was intended to shield the nuclear program.
The talks could also lead to allies supporting France’s nuclear arsenal with their conventional forces.
As well as conventional armed forces and well-armed police, there is the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, with an explicit mandate to protect the regime at home and abroad.
From BBC
Now the new French model could see allies getting a form of enhanced nuclear protection effectively in return for greater cooperation with France on its conventional forces, like long-range missiles.
In a converse way, Kay and Down’s reluctance to be so clean, so shiny and so heteronormative with their characters is just as forward-thinking as any media that conjures a conventional picture of equality.
From Salon
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