http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/27/483069862/inside-a-secret-government-warehouse-prepped-for-health-catastrophes
When Greg Burel tells people he’s in charge of some secret
government warehouses, he often gets asked if they’re like the one at
the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, where the Ark of the Covenant gets
packed away in a crate and hidden forever.
“Well, no, not really,” says Burel, director of a program called the
Strategic National Stockpile at the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
Thousands of lives might someday depend on this stockpile, which
holds all kinds of medical supplies that the officials would need in the
wake of a terrorist attack with a chemical, biological or nuclear
weapon.
The location of these warehouses is secret. How many there are is
secret. (Although a former government official recently said at a public
meeting that there are six.) And exactly what’s in them is secret.
“If everybody knows exactly what we have, then you know exactly what
you can do to us that we can’t fix,” says Burel. “And we just don’t want
that to happen.”
What he will reveal is how much the stockpile is worth: “We currently value the inventory at a little over $7 billion.”
$7 billion worth.
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