The MenAfriVac stockpile, brought about through a public-private partnership, was created in response to an outbreak of meningitis A in sub-Saharan Africa in 1996-97 that produced 200,000 cases and 20,000 deaths.
As a result, a number of nations with nuclear technology hold a large stockpile (about 240 tonnes) of separated plutonium.
By the late 1980s, Black Star had stockpiled about one million black-and-white prints and 10 million color transparencies.
Even so, he said, it would make sense for the government to stockpile about 40 million doses of the GlaxoSmithKline product and start using it if a pandemic began.
Administration officials said the military would receive about a third of the vaccine, the civilian stockpile about a third and the last third would go to other government agencies, like the State Department, that have employees who could be in danger.
In the District, health officials stockpiled about 76percentt of the recommended doses, and in Maryland, the figure was about 70percentt, although officials there said they think they will be fully stocked by this fall.
The Sunday Times of London reported that Israel had manufactured nuclear weapons at the Dimona center in the southern Negev and had stockpiled about 100 atomic weapons over the last 20 years, making it the sixth-ranked nuclear power in the world.
The United States had stockpiled about 30,000 tons.
Swaziland's anti-poaching body wants to sell the country's stockpile (about 700-lbs) of horns from rhinos that died and horns confiscated from poachers.
"Fortunately, in the wisdom of councils past, the city has been setting aside money for a rainy day for 25 years, so we have stockpiled about $80 million in a capital improvement account," Mayor John Duran said.
