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Armed forces personnel	64,000		[53rd of 166]
Branches Ground Forces, Naval Force, Air and Air Defense Forces, Republican Guard
Conscription Conscription exists
Conventional arms exports	$5,000,000.00		[35th of 40]
Conventional arms imports	$27,000,000.00		[53rd of 85]
expenditure > % of GDP	1.06 %		[88th of 145]
Expenditures > Dollar figure	$221,800,000.00		[26th of 111]
Iraq Coalition casualties	1		[18th of 18]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49	4,580,750		[54th of 175]
Manpower > Military age	18 years of age
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males	145,495		[64th of 226]
personnel	101,000		[54th of 170]
personnel > % of total labor force	1.24 %		[63rd of 168]
Service age and obligation 18 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript service obligation - 2 years; minimum age for volunteers NA
US military exports	$295.00 thousand		[74th of 109]
Weapon holdings	3,252,000		[29th of 137]
WMD > Chemical Kazakhstan inherited one known chemical weapons production plant in the city of Pavlodar. This plant probably was designed to replace aging plants in Volgograd and Novocheboksarsk (Russia) for the production of the binary agent "novichok." The plant's construction was halted in 1987, after the Soviet Union became involved in CWC-related negotiations, so it never produced any chemical warfare agents. Kazakhstan joined the CWC in March 2000. However, Kazakhstan submitted a nil declaration, leaving out the Pavlodar facility.
WMD > Missile Kazakhstan inherited 104 SS-18 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) from the Soviet missile complex. All ICBMs were transferred to Russia for dismantlement by September 1996 and missile silos and silo structures were destroyed under the U.S. Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program by September 1999. Gidromash, an Almaty-based Soviet-era producer of submarine-launched missiles, was converted to a civilian commercial enterprise under CTR's Industrial Partnerships Program.
WMD > Nuclear When the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991, Kazakhstan inherited 1,410 nuclear warheads and the Semipalatinsk nuclear weapon test site. Kazakhstan transferred all of these nuclear warheads to Russia by April 1995 and destroyed the nuclear testing infrastructure at Semipalatinsk by July 2000. Weapons-grade nuclear material remains in Kazakhstan, however, including three metric tons of plutonium at a shutdown breeder reactor in western Kazakhstan and small amounts of highly enriched uranium (HEU) at two nuclear research institutes. Approximately 600 kilograms of weapons-grade HEU was removed to the United States from the Ulba Metallurgy Plant in 1994 under a joint U.S.-Kazakhstani operation known as Project Sapphire. Kazakhstan is a party to START-I, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). It signed an Additional Protocol with the International Atomic Energy Agency in February 2004 and is a member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group.
WMD > Overview Kazakhstan inherited nuclear-tipped missiles, a nuclear weapon test site, and biological and chemical weapon production facilities when the Soviet Union collapsed. In its first decade of independence, Kazakhstan dismantled and destroyed Soviet weapons systems and facilities left on its territory and signed major international nonproliferation treaties.

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