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U.S. storing chemichal weapons in Japan

In 1956 and 1966, clearly with Japanese agreement, the United States kept nuclear weapons and in later years nuclear bombs without their fissile cores on Chichi-jima, about 500 miles southeast of the Japanese mainland. They also kept them on Iwo Jima, about 670 miles southeast of Tokyo. This shows that while the United States publicly vowed to keep nuclear weapons in Japan, it secretly stored them not only in Chichi-Jima and Iwo Jima but also in Okinawa. Until 1972, the U.S kept nuclear weapons on Okinawa, and when the American occupat...

Posted by: Leonard Herriman

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