Okay, so someone has coined this verbification; fair enough. I mean those U.S. defence & security blokes couldn't string two coherent sentences together anyway, right? We expect as much from them.
How come many journalists are so quick to integrate such bleedin' awful language into their articles.
'The Guardian' includes 'weaponize' seemingly as a lark, like so:

'The Bush administration is planning to test a space-based missile defence system - the first step towards "weaponising" space' (www.guardian.co.uk)

Others just include such terms in their articles without batting an eyelid. Is it largely the fault of the media that these err, questionable terms gain popular acceptance?