Japanese companies account for half the world's consumption outside China and have some stockpiles, but have kept secret the size of these stockpiles.
Nor are these arms merely sitting in some stockpile against the evil day when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his Isis forces come roaring over the border towards Mecca.
We are confident that Saddam Hussein retained some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capability.
And even this might not end the arguments over whether the list was comprehensive and whether there were still some stockpiles the Syrian president was holding back.
Well I think there have been some caution and some notion of stockpiling some cash which is an indication of still some caution about the market.
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However, since the amount of needed medical material reaches gigantic proportions, while drugs and medical devices are prone to expire after some time, stockpiling of the medical material may not be a realistic solution [ 53].
American bombs have destroyed some aid stockpiles -- a Red Cross warehouse was destroyed by bombs in October.
Families try to stay in their homes, and some have stockpiled food in case of a shortage or a government road closing.
