[backhoe]

Appreciate the comments... I saw somewhere a link detailing how the Iraqi chemical weapons program was- what do you call the bloody thing?- where the components are made only at the last moment & then combined. So there would never be large stocks of, say, VX.

[CFC__VRWC]

Compartmentalized?

[quidnunc]

Backhoe wrote: Appreciate the comments... I saw somewhere a link detailing how the Iraqi chemical weapons program was- what do you call the bloody thing?- where the components are made only at the last moment & then combined. So there would never be large stocks of, say, VX.

In industry this is called just-in-time delivery.

[MizSterious]

Look at the 5th link listed above--that's one of the sources you're looking for. There might be more.