And importantly, this ethical concept of health as the ability to achieve capabilities is a human species-wide conception; it puts the health of every human being across all societies on the same plane of observation and analysis.
Intelligence reports also indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons, but has not yet achieved nuclear capability.
In this regard, what is significant about the manned space programme is that only superpowers have achieved this capability, and Tiangong-1 and its successors are for China, symbolic proof that China is emerging as a 21st Century superpower.
Such events are rare; highly pathogenic H5N1 viruses have been circulating and infecting the occasional human who has direct contact with birds since 1997, and the virus has still not achieved the capability of transmitting between humans.
Mr. Obama has never talked about stopping Iran from achieving weapons capability.
Whether terrorists actually succeed in detonating such a weapon in the West or merely achieve that capability as a means for thermonuclear blackmail, the consequences will be devastating.
[The state department bureau of intelligence and research] judges Iran is unlikely to achieve this capability before 2013 because of foreseeable technical and programmatic problems".
Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, but Western leaders say they suspect it is intended to achieve the capability to build nuclear weapons.
Western powers and Israel have accused Iran of stockpiling enriched uranium as part of an effort to achieve the capability to make nuclear weapons.
Regardless of the outcome of Iran's quest to achieve nuclear capability, it is clear that they possess the knowledge and relative experience to export nuclear know-how, as A. Q . Khandid.
Despite the underground tests, outside experts suspect the North is short of achieving the capability to put a nuclear warhead on a missile, although it has boasted it had succeeded in the miniaturisation of a weapon.
