A stockpile is a pile or storage location for bulk materials, forming part of the bulk material handling process. Stockpiles are used in many different...
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The Enduring Stockpile is the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons following the end of the Cold War. During the Cold War the United States produced...
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Look up stockpile in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A stockpile is a temporary storage method used in bulk material handling. Stockpile may also refer...
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A soil stockpile is formed with excavated topsoil during the construction of buildings or infrastructure. It is considered to be an important resource...
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The Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), originally called the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile (NPS), is the United States' national repository of antibiotics...
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Chemical Weapons Convention (redirect from Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction)
officially the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, is an arms control...
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Stockpile stewardship refers to the United States program of reliability testing and maintenance of its nuclear weapons without the use of nuclear testing...
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List of states with nuclear weapons (redirect from Nuclear stockpile)
nuclear states reached 12,512. Approximately 9,576 are kept with military stockpiles. About 3,844 warheads are deployed with missiles. 2000 warheads, which...
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War reserve stock (redirect from Stockpile (military))
Squadron is tasked with maintaining and distributing the largest war reserve stockpiles of munitions for the United States Air Forces in Europe. Conflicts of...
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Chemical weapon (section Countries with stockpiles)
they constitute a class of hazardous chemical weapons that have been stockpiled by many nations. Unitary agents are effective on their own and do not...
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This article shows various estimates of the nuclear weapon stockpiles of various countries at various points in time. This article also shows the number...
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Nuclear weapons of the United States (redirect from US stockpile of nuclear weapons)
The American atomic stockpile was small and grew slowly in the immediate aftermath of World War II, and the size of that stockpile was a closely guarded...
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the parties declared worldwide stockpiles of 17,440 tonnes of mustard gas. As of December 2015, 86% of these stockpiles had been destroyed. A significant...
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United States Army Chemical Materials Activity (redirect from Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program)
security by securely storing the remaining U.S. chemical warfare materiel stockpiles, while protecting the work force, the public and the environment to the...
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S. stockpile must continue to function far past their original expected lifetimes. As components and materials age, problems can arise. Stockpile Life...
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VX (nerve agent) (section Worldwide stockpiles)
banned by the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993, where production and stockpiling of VX exceeding 100 grams (3.53 oz) per year is outlawed. The only exception...
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The Defense National Stockpile Center (DNSC) is a branch of the United States' Defense Logistics Agency, whose purpose it is to store, secure, and sell...
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The National Antiviral Stockpile (NAS) is a federal Government of Canada response to the needs of the health care system in case of an emergency. It is...
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manages Project BioShield, which funds the research, development and stockpiling of vaccines and treatments that the government could use during public...
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National Stockpile. As The Wall Street Journal explained, "Several administrations had sought unsuccessfully to sell silver from the stockpile, arguing...
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1993 Chemical Weapons Convention prohibits signatories from acquiring, stockpiling, developing, and using chemical weapons in all circumstances except for...
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deployed stockpiles to not more than 2,200 warheads each. In 2003, the U.S. rejected Russian proposals to further reduce both nation's nuclear stockpiles to...
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and maintain the United States nuclear stockpile. The program was created in 1995 in order to support the Stockpile Stewardship Program (or SSP). The goal...
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Ottawa Treaty (redirect from Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction)
The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction of 1997, known informally...
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Large nuclear weapons stockpile with global range (dark blue), smaller stockpile with global range (medium blue), smaller stockpile with regional range...
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resistance including the destruction of Norsk Hydro's heavy water plant and stockpile of heavy water at Vemork, which crippled the German nuclear programme...
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is the largest in the world. The PLA holds the world's third-largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, and the world's second-largest navy by tonnage. China's...
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intermediate yield two-stage thermonuclear warhead deployed by the U.S. enduring stockpile with a variable yield ("dial-a-yield") of 5 or 150 kilotonnes of TNT (21...
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Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) is a facility built to destroy the chemical weapons stockpile at the Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD), near Richmond, Kentucky. The last...
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borders to organised long-term attrition and withdrawal to strong, well-stockpiled positions high in the Alps, known as the Reduit. Switzerland was an important...
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