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- adjective Capable of being
weaponized .
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Examples
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SPARKS: And they're making non-weaponizable waste from that.
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Later this year the biotech company Cepheid expects to deliver to the Army a DNA-based, breadbox-size detector that can identify the presence of anthrax, Q-fever, staph B enterotoxin and other weaponizable pathogens.
Unmasking Bioterror 2007
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The Kim regime subsequently threatened to begin converting 8,000 spent fuel rods from its Yongbyon plant into weaponizable nuclear material.
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The Kim regime subsequently threatened to begin converting 8,000 spent fuel rods from its Yongbyon plant into weaponizable nuclear material.
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The Kim regime subsequently threatened to begin converting 8,000 spent fuel rods from its Yongbyon plant into weaponizable nuclear material.
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Taiwan has the engineering talent and capability to develop nuclear weapons but there is nothing even close to weaponizable nuclear research in Taiwan these days because all schools are too scared they won't attract any students to the dept if they have anything remotely reminiscent of nuclear weapons.
No Blast in the Past: How the US killed Taiwan's Nuclear Program Michael Turton 2007
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And he said that what the Iraqis would do, is they wouldn't want to have it sitting around weaponizable, in its weaponized form, because it would degrade very quickly.
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ARMY SCIENTIST: Saddam Hussein received his weaponizable strains of anthrax from the United States, from the American type culture collection formerly in Rockville, Maryland.
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Saddam Hussein received his weaponizable strains of anthrax from the United States, from the American-type culture collection formerly in Rockville, Maryland.
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In October, negotiators in Geneva reached a deal that could have defused the nuclear issue, at least for a while: Iran would send much of its low-enriched uranium abroad, where it would be further enriched and then returned in a form suited for medical use and not weaponizable.
NYT > Opinion By ROBERT WRIGHT 2010
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