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

File photo taken June 25, 1969, shows U.S. Ambassador to Japan Armin Meyer (L) and Japanese Foreign Minister Kiichi Aichi shaking hands at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo. Declassified documents showed on Nov. 19, 2017 that 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. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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