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Their fear was that bad guys somewhere might repeat the experiment and weaponise the result.

Even then, the technical steps needed to 'weaponise' enrichment would probably take two to five years.

He added that it is extremely difficult to weaponise.

Their stand on the subject is that any attempt to weaponise space will have profound destabilising consequences.

The School's instructors combined with the more experienced pupils to man the aircraft and weaponise them.

“Equally important, however, and far too often overlooked, is the need to take care not to give Iran a reason to weaponise.”

The North Korean dictatorship said that it would weaponise its plutonium stocks.

North Korea threatens to 'weaponise' all of its plutonium

Iran was avoiding meaningful responses to intelligence pointing to covert efforts to 'weaponise' nuclear work, it said.

In this respect, they stress that any US effort to weaponise space will probably trigger an arms race in space56.

It also said that it suspected Iran was attempting to "weaponise" its atomic stockpile.

According to him, the Iranians have not yet taken any "substantive steps to weaponise the uranium they are enriching now or to militarise the program."

Public expletives have become more common, and executives have moved to leverage, or perhaps weaponise, foul language to their benefit.

Claims that Iraq managed to weaponise VX are also doubtful.

Prime minister caught out over school funding as he tries to weaponise education at his latest election sortie

The Royal Artillery has a future aspiration to weaponise Watchkeeper.

"Someone had the intent to weaponise a virus," said Ilias Chantzos, a security expert.

“The focus of Western policy has been on imposing pressure in order to give Iran’s leaders a reason not to weaponise,” Disney adds.

N Korea to weaponise nuclear fuel

Nuclear powers would help other countries develop civil nuclear energy while tightening safeguards against those who would weaponise the technology.

Pyongyang then announced it had reached the final stages of an experimental programme to enrich uranium and was continuing to weaponise plutonium.

Americans worry Iran is using time to get closer to creating an infrastructure able to produce fissile material, weaponise it and put warheads on missiles.

It may or may not have the capacity to "weaponise" fissile material &#151 to incorporate it into functional weapons.

Can the CIA weaponise the weather?

But Friday's report said Tehran had evaded a proper response to claims it had made secret efforts to "weaponise" nuclear material.

And the research programs to do things like weaponize insects?

It remains unclear how soon the military can weaponize this sort of technology.

The plant is so easy to pull, one must admire its ability to weaponize itself.

On top of that, military attacks could push Iran to weaponize its program.

Everyone is afraid you are going to weaponize space.

It was a matter of relative ease to weaponize such emissions.

A strike would also create a greater incentive for Iran to weaponize its nuclear program.

So you could really weaponize it and make it go to a million or something; right?

And by 2025 it could be practical to weaponize them into a sort of disease assassin.

But what if the North Koreans do want to weaponize?

"We had to develop nuclear bombs, and then, the systems to weaponize them.

The Greeks of antiquity were not the only ones to weaponize nature.

The board’s primary concern was that terrorists might use the data to weaponize influenza.

It is also working to weaponize nuclear materials and to develop long-range missiles.

And how long would it take them to weaponize it?"

Which is why the ball is now back in the Army's court, as military scientists search for a way to weaponize it.

It was really easy to weaponize, he said.

It is entirely possible, perhaps even likely, that the Iranians have not crossed the line and begun to weaponize.

"It's very difficult to weaponize chemical weapons," he said.

At one point he is kept prisoner in a scientific facility seeking to weaponize his energies.

Weaponize, which had been around before but was under the radar, probably should have been in the dictionary all along, he said.

Although Spain's immediate priority is for surveillance, they will eventually try to weaponize the platform.

We should treat seriously, however, the data from intelligence sources that suggest he may soon "weaponize" his biological threat.

Indeed, in 2013, Tehran is closer than ever to attaining the capacity to weaponize within a relatively short period of time.

This means that in emerging nuclear countries only one single political decision is required to "weaponize" a nuclear program.