Definition of "weaponisation" [weaponisation]

• The act of making something into a weapon or making more effective as a weapon. (noun)

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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."
• "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"
• "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."