Ex-nuclear cruise missile launch site in Okinawa

Ex-nuclear cruise missile launch site in Okinawa

Photo taken on May 14, 2025, shows a former site of a Mace B nuclear-armed cruise missile launch base in the Okinawa Prefecture village of Onna, southern Japan. The site of the base, which had been operational during the U.S. occupation of Okinawa in the 1960s, is currently open to the general public.

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