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stockpile - use in sentences
Converse of object
- destroy: This includes the complete destruction of stockpiled anti-personnel mines in 28 countries, with 19 states parties in the process of destroying stockpiles.
- possess: It possesses the greatest stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and the most advanced and extensive research in mass destruction weaponry in the world.
Adjective modifier
- fissile: The wide disparity in the fissile material stockpiles of India and Pakistan could erode the stability of nuclear deterrence.
- unequal: However, his country would only support such a treaty if it did not allow unequal stockpiles of fissile materials.
- nuclear: We have no way of dealing with Britain's hazardous nuclear waste stockpile - which could explode or leak at any time.
- enduring: In production, the nation is restoring its capacity to produce nuclear weapons components to replace aging parts in the enduring nuclear stockpile.
- tactical: We renew our call on Russia to review further its tactical nuclear weapons stockpile with a view toward making significant reductions.
- Russian: For one, there have never been any reliable figures on the size of the Russian stockpile.
Modifies a noun
- stewardship: The United States has its $ 4 billion ' scientific based stockpile stewardship ' plans.
- destruction: The first deadlines for stockpile destruction occur on March 1, 2003.
Noun used with modifier
- plutonium: It is now being used for " an experiment " to burn-up a small part of France's plutonium stockpile.
- warhead: This additional investment at AWE is required to sustain the existing warhead stockpile in-service irrespective of decisions on any successor warhead.
- ivory: Member countries, including the UK, will vote on a controversial proposal by five southern African countries to sell off their ivory stockpiles.
- ammunition: The French-German resolution introduced by France on ammunition stockpiles is finally adopted without a vote after a problem with the US is resolved.
- weapon: We renew our call on Russia to review further its tactical nuclear weapons stockpile with a view toward making significant reductions.
Preposition: of
- plutonium: It's fuel for the arms race The British nuclear industry has created the third largest stockpile of plutonium in the world.
- weapon: First of all, we all thought we would find stockpiles of weapons.
- ammunition: I had my stockpiles of ammunition: on my left a mound of large bricks, on my right a mound of small-calibre stones.
- vaccine: Smallpox was eradicated worldwide by 1980, and the US stockpiles of vaccine are decades old.
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