Sentence examples for weaponization from inspiring English sources

Not all poisonous substances are considered suitable for weaponization, or use as chemical weapons.

"I think Iraq paralyzed the community, and its first N.I.E. on Iran was disastrous, in my view, because it conflated weaponization with the process of developing a nuclear weapon.

In June 1958 a new research and development authority named RAFAEL (a Hebrew acronym for the Armaments Development Authority) was established within the Ministry of Defense to assist in the weaponization side of the project, along with the organization of the Dimona Nuclear Research Centre to be built in the Negev.

Some of these biological agents have properties that would make them more likely candidates for weaponization, such as their lethality, ability to incapacitate, contagiousness or noncontagiousness, hardiness and stability, and other characteristics.

Since the mid-nineties, Israeli intelligence had been convinced that Iran had embarked on a set of redundant projects that would take it through the steps of procurement, enrichment, and, possibly, weaponization.

At the very least, she is persuasive in arguing that sending the anthrax letters required not just access to the "Ames strain" of anthrax but also knowledge of the weaponization technique developed by Bill Patrick.

(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).

update depicted the report as reinforcing the essential conclusion of the 2007 paper: Iran halted weaponization in 2003.

Weaponization is only a part of the process, but there are other parts as well, including enrichment and the development of delivery systems.

Paving the site with asphalt, the study said, "would make it very hard to take soil samples and likely be effective at covering up environmental evidence of nuclear weaponization-related experiments".

"Did this begin as an intelligence-gathering operation and later turn into a data-weaponization effort?" Schiff said.