(Bloomberg) Jonathan Tirone - A UN group seeking to outlaw nuclear-weapons tests has set up a detection facility near the border between Iran and Turkmenistan that can register the shockwaves of an atomic blast. The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization built seismic station PS44 near Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, a "few kilometers" from the country's southern border with Iran, the Vienna-based group said Wednesday. UN inspectors received intelligence material that included Iranian designs for a 400-meter-deep shaft that could be used for testing a nuclear bomb, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in May 2008. The documents also showed plans for a control station and diagnostic equipment to monitor an explosion.
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