There may or may not be weaponization in Iran today, but I don't think it is an interesting question.
But merely exploding lunar rock, even with a rocket hull, where the scientific mission is clear, is not the "weaponization" of space.
In exchange, Iran would accept the International Atomic Energy Agency's definition of "objective guarantees" that the Iranian nuclear program will remain peaceful and not be diverted toward weaponization in the future.
(Einhorn said in an e-mail that he would prefer not to discuss Iranian weaponization with me, as did a spokesman for Gary Samore, President Obama's special assistant for arms control).
In 2010, Turkey and Brazil convinced the Iranians to transfer half of their enriched uranium outside the country so it could not be used in weaponization.
While the US bickers with Benjamin Netanyahu over the fate of an Iranian nuclear weapons agreement, Canada is busy going to space with Israel a country that's not wholly against the weaponization of the final frontier.
"The underlying narrative is, 'Don't trust anyone.'" The weaponization of information is not some project devised by a Kremlin policy expert but is an integral part of Russian military doctrine — what some senior military figures call a "decisive" battlefront.
So we said no matter how many impediments you put there, sell it to your people that you have achieved your goals in making Iran not pursue the path to weaponization.
At first, I was struck by echoes of (and even sordid justifications for) recent American adventurism in the Middle East; but the church scene made clear that "Wonder Woman" is harsh not on religion but on its weaponization.
"We didn't arrive to the point of weaponization," Abdel-Rahman Shalqam, the foreign minister, said Saturday at a news conference.
