Tools, stockpiling

Does that mean that the OPCW should concentrate exclusively on its core mandate of verified destruction of the declared CW stockpiles The implication, of course, is that the OPCW could soon lose its raison d etre. Once the declared CW stocks are gone, there remains the issue of CW non-proliferation, but perhaps the tools that the CWC offers are less fitting given the nature of the emerging proliferation process Would not reliance on national export controls, counter-prohferation, law enforcement, intelhgence-sharing and, ultimately, recourse to the use of mihtary force do the same, perhaps even better ... 

A wide variety of equipment is commercially available to suit a multiplicity of mixing tasks. In this overview mixers and devices for mixing solids are divided into four groups (1) mixed stockpiles, (2) bunker mixers, (3) rotating mixers or mixers with rotating tools, and (4) direct mixing of feeding streams. 

The Army has a number of options available for the treatment of NSCWM. They include the use of facilities designed to treat both non-stockpile and stockpile CWM, the use of mobile systems that can be incorporated into a facility or transported to the site of a find, and individual treatment technologies. Like mobile systems, individual treatment technologies may be incorporated into a larger entity such as a facility or mobile system or transported to the site of a find. This chapter examines these options, or tools, and, where appropriate, presents the committee s findings and recommendations related to their use. Each facility, mobile system, and individual technology is examined from the standpoint of its current status, as well as technical, RAP, and public involvement issues. An overview of the options for treating NSCWM considered in this chapter appears in Table 2-1. 

Table 3-1 compares the technologies and systems with the materiel and munitions that constitute the non-stockpile inventory. As shown in the table, no tools are available for... 

The ability to imagine the particulate-level reasons for intermolecular attractive forces is a powerful tool in your thinking as a chemist knowledge stockpile. The more you understand this type of particulate-level behavior, the better you will understand the macroscopic properties that result from it. 

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