Turkmenistan has one of the least developed export control systems in the former Soviet Union. Due to its shared borders with Afghanistan and Iran, the country could potentially become a transit point for illegal exports. Turkmenistan does not produce or possess nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons.
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Turkmenistan does not possess nuclear weapons. During the Soviet era, it did not host nuclear tests, though at least one underground nuclear explosion was conducted in 1972 in Mary Oblast to seal a gushing gas well. The Constitutional Law of Turkmenistan, adopted in December 1995, the state pledged not to "possess, produce or spread nuclear, chemical, bacteriological or other types of weapons of mass destruction or help to create new types or technologies for their production.” Ashgabad is a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and has signed an Additional Protocol with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which entered into force on January 3, 2006. Turkmenistan joined four other Central Asian States--Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan--in signing a treaty creating a Central Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone (CANWFZ) on 8 September 2006. Ashgabat ratified the treaty on April 19, 2008, and it awaits presidential signature.
 See Turkmenistan Nuclear Profile
Turkmenistan is party to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) and does not possess biological weapons.
See Turkmenistan Biological Profile
Turkmenistan is a member of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and does not possess chemical weapons.
Turkmenistan does not possess ballistic missiles capable of carrying WMD payloads.
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