
Uzbekistan
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Uzbekistan does not possess nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons. When part of the USSR, Uzbekistan provided much of the uranium for the Soviet nuclear weapons program. Today, it is a member of all relevant arms control treaties including the Central Asia Nuclear Weapons Free-Zone Treaty.
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Region Former Soviet Union
$11 billion Estimated cost of proposed Russian-supplied nuclear power plant
63 Kilograms of highly enriched uranium returned from Uzbekistan to Russia in 2006
7th Global rank in uranium oxide production
Nuclear
- Possesses two operational nuclear research reactors from the Soviet era which have been converted to run on Low-Enriched Uranium (LEU)
- Has been a major uranium supplier since the Soviet era and continues to mine and export uranium globally
- Joined and originally proposed the Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone (CANWFZ)


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Biological
- Inherited numerous biological weapons facilities from the Soviet era, including the Aralsk-7
- Despite efforts under the U.S. Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program there remain serious concerns over the safety of the remaining biological agents in these facilities

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Missile
- No known ballistic missile program, but possesses the industrial and technological capability to produce components
- Party to the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC)

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Chemical
- Does not possess a chemical weapons program

Tutorial on Chemical Weapons Nonproliferation
Treaties and Regimes Memberships
- NTI
- CNS

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