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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Are there American nukes in Japan?
Also if push came to shove I'd guess that Japan could arm itself with nuclear weapons (and tuck them inside a Hello Kitty cell phone if necessary) in a pretty short period of time. That's pretty much a nuclear deterrent in itself.
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From what I remember from my studies, there are no Nukes on Japan according to a document signed in the 1970's between Japan and the US that 'updated' the San Francisco Treaty, although I could be wrong.
Japan was a buffer state during the Cold War, not a launch pad for American nukes. If that were the case, all Russia would have to do is develop short-range warheads as opposed to the ICBM's they started developing in the 1970's.