Is a computer scientist working on AWS a civilian? The DoD uses AWS.

A scientist leading the project of constructing a massive weapon does not compare to a scientist working as part of a cog in the wheel on a service that is used both by the government and other companies that is not related to weapon construction any more than a screw driver is related to weapon construction.

From tfa:

> But some American officials argued that the death of Mr. Fakhrizadeh, the latest in a string of such mysterious killings of Iran’s top nuclear scientists, would send a chilling message to the country’s other top scientists working on that program: If we can get him, we can get you, too.