Documents show U.S. mulled Japan nuke deployment request in 1960s

The U.S. government weighed its chances of convincing Tokyo in the late 1960s to allow the deployment of nuclear weapons on mainland Japan if an East Asia crisis broke out, declassified documents showed Sunday.The idea, which was never proposed because it was apparently considered to have a "very slight" chance of being accepted, offers a look into how Washington sought to expand its military footprint in the region after World War II and the Korean War.The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had left the Japanese public with a strong aversion to nuclear weapons, with the prohibition …READ FULL ARTICLE