A former senior U.S. official ruled out deploying nuclear weapons in Okinawa after the territory's return to Japanese administration in 1972, saying there was no strategic value in doing so, according to diplomatic records declassified on Wednesday.As part of Okinawa's reversion, Prime Minister Eisaku Sato and President Richard Nixon had agreed that the United States would remove its nuclear arsenal from military bases on the islands, which lie hundreds of kilometers to the southwest of mainland Japan.The agreement, reached in November 1969, was made necessary by public sentiment in Japan g…READ FULL ARTICLE
