TOKYO - U.S. forces in Japan secretly transferred dummy nuclear bombs to then U.S.-occupied Okinawa Prefecture in 1971 out of concern that Japan would discover they were being used for training at an airbase on the country's main island, a declassified document showed Tuesday.
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