![]() Once all of the piles are set, players begin bidding on which pile they want to take, gaining any benefits (or penalties) from the cards on that pile. Each player places one card face up on a pile and one card face down on a pile. The cards represent things from shares of a particular stock to an instant penalty in the form of lost money or even the ability to manipulate a stock of your choosing up or down. The supply phase gives each player two cards which are placed onto any of the given piles, there is one pile per player. Each player is then individually given one forecast about one of the other five stocks. This is usually a gain or a loss of some amount (varying from 1 to 4 on the stock track), but each turn one stock will pay dividends to anybody who owns it. First, players are all provided the information on what one of the six stocks is going to do on that turn via forecasts. ![]() In game terms, 5 is equivalent to $5,000, 10 is $10,000, and so on.Ī round in Stockpile is broken up into six phases, which gives the impression that things are a bit more complicated than they actually are. All of the stocks start with a set price of 5 and that price will fluctuate between 1 and 10 throughout the game. The weapons kept in Kentucky and an Army facility in Pueblo, Colorado, represent the last 10% of the nation’s original stockpile of over 30,000 tons (27,200 metric tons) of chemical weapons.Stockpile is played around a stock board consisting of six stocks, each color-coded and representing some generic corporate entity (big banks, automotive, steel, etc…). The neutralization process was settled on in 2006 after an outcry from residents and environmental groups that objected to the weapons being burned to eliminate the deadly chemicals. Each rocket carries about 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms) of the nerve agent. ![]() The last phase of destroying the M55 rockets with sarin has been the most challenging, because of the age and deterioration of the rockets, said Candace Coyle, the plant’s project manager. The mustard agent was eliminated in 2021 and the final rocket containing VX agent was neutralized at the plant in April 2022. Kentucky originally had stockpiles of VX, GB and mustard agent that had been stored in bunkers for decades. Workers at the Kentucky facility, the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant, separate the deadly chemicals from their original rocket or projectile casings and then eliminate the agent, in most cases using a process known as neutralization, where the chemical agent is dissolved in a solution. “Which makes what’s being done here in Kentucky all the more important,” he said.ĭestruction of the Kentucky stockpile began in 2019 after decades of planning and debate over how to dispose of the deadly war weapons. ![]() Reif said the weapons are “heinous,” and “the suffering they can inflict is unimaginable.” He said all other nations who joined the treaty have finished destruction of their stockpiles. “As recently as a few years ago, we weren’t sure we could achieve our treaty commitment, so the fact that we are now on the doorstep is no small feat,” Reif said. Secretary of Defense for Threat Reduction and Arms Control, said the destruction of the nation’s deadly chemical weapons has been “decades in the making.” Military and civilian officials gathered Wednesday at Eastern Kentucky University to speak about the end of the project. The two sites have the country’s last remaining chemical weapons that must be disposed of according to a 1997 worldwide treaty. It is outlawed under international rules of warfare.Īnother stockpile is being eliminated at an Army facility in Colorado, but that effort is expected to conclude before the Kentucky one. The GB nerve agent, also known as sarin, a colorless and tasteless toxin, can cause respiratory failure, leading to death. ![]() The facility at the Blue Grass Army Depot is weeks away from eliminating the last of a stockpile of 51,000 M55 rockets with GB nerve agent that have been stored at the depot since the 1940s. The weapons kept in Kentucky and an Army facility in Pueblo, Colorado, represent the last 10% of the nation’s original stockpile of over 30,000 tons (27,200 metric tons) of chemical weapons.Secretary of Defense for Threat Reduction and Arms Control, said the destruction of the nation’s deadly chemical weapons has been “decades in the making” A stockpile of 51,000 M55 rockets with GB nerve agent have been stored at the depot since the 1940s.The chemical weapons stockpile at the Blue Grass Army Depot is almost destroyed. ![]()
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