US and Japan Discuss Scenario for US Nuclear Weapons Use

By Dave DeCamp – News.Antiwar.com

The US and Japan have been discussing a potential scenario in which the US military would use nuclear weapons in the event of a conflict in East Asia.

Japan is the only country in the world that has suffered a nuclear attack when the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, but Tokyo is now considered to be under the US nuclear umbrella.