Drawing extensively on declassified U.S. government documents, Kristensen reviews the Cold War history of how the United States and Japanese governments circumvented Japan's stated anti-nuclear principles within their alliance. Kristensen's paper also shows how part of the US nuclear war plan was built at facilities in Japan that have continued to host nuclear command and control exercises well into the 1990s. Taken together, these two papers provide important new insights into both the history and the possible future developments of nuclear weapons issues in the US-Japan alliance. The Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development is a policy-oriented research and consulting organization. Nautilus promotes international cooperation for security and ecologically sustainable development.
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These papers will be the inaugural distributions of the new Nuclear Policy Network.