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- noun The act of making something into a
weapon or making moreeffective as a weapon.
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Examples
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Blair's approach to Iran aligns him with US hawks such as John Bolton, the former American ambassador to the UN, who believes that Israel should have attacked Iran before it started loading fuel into its first nuclear power plant in the southern port city of Bushehr on 21 August, although nuclear experts say Bushehr has no link with Iran's secretive uranium enrichment programme, seen as the main "weaponisation" threat, at other installations.
Tony Blair: West should use force if Iran 'continues to develop nuclear weapons' 2010
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Atomic Energy Agency, which also voiced concern at Iran's abrupt move to higher uranium enrichment, which advanced it on a path toward possible "weaponisation": * POSSIBLE
WN.com - Articles related to IAEA fears Iran may be working on nuclear warhead 2010
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Atomic Energy Agency, which also voiced concern at Iran's abrupt move to higher uranium enrichment, which advanced it on a path toward possible "weaponisation": * POSSIBLE
WN.com - Articles related to IAEA fears Iran may be working on nuclear warhead 2010
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The successful "weaponisation" of the fission nuclear devices happened towards the end of last year, according to Daniel Pinkston of the think-tank, the International Crisis Group, who says that he has been shown detailed intelligence assessments of Pyongyang's new nuclear capability by a foreign government.
unknown title 2009
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"weaponisation" or having a capable delivery system that could threaten neighbours or enemies further afield.
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Sources close to the IAEA confirmed he was the "foreign expert" referred to in its past reports on Iranian weaponisation.
Iran nuclear report: IAEA claims Tehran working on advanced warhead 2011
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If GWOT preceded much thought of drones, it paved the way for their crash weaponisation, development and deployment.
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It added that despite a report last November by the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency alleging that Iran had made significant progress on nuclear weaponisation, "Iran's essential challenge remains developing a secure capability to make enough weapon-grade uranium, likely for at least several nuclear weapons".
Iran won't build nuclear weapon in 2012, says draft Isis report 2012
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The IAEA report will say the Iranian studies on weaponisation have been downgraded since 2004 from building and testing components to mostly computer modelling.
Iran nuclear report: IAEA claims Tehran working on advanced warhead 2011
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He added: "The process [at Porton Down] most likely involved starting with a list of likely sources for infections and then finding that some are difficult to aerosolise or are unstable or are otherwise unsuitable for weaponisation."
Files reveal Britain's secret biological weapons trials in second world war 2010
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