U.S. troops secretly moved dummy nuclear bombs to Okinawa in 1971: archive

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.The document reveals how the United States was moving ahead with preparations for possible nuclear strikes against the Soviet Union or China under Cold War contingency planning while being highly sensitive to the strong anti-nuclear sentiment in Japan, which suffered U.S. atomic bombings during World War II in 1945.Other decla…READ FULL ARTICLE