Editing Okinawa Prefecture (section)

====Secret U.S. deployment of nuclear weapons====
Since 1960, the U.S. and Japan have maintained an agreement that allows the U.S. to secretly bring nuclear weapons into Japanese ports.<ref name="NHK01">{{cite web |url= http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/japan/okinawa/okinawa.htm |title= Revelations in Newly Released Documents about U.S. Nuclear Weapons and Okinawa Fuel; NHK Documentary |date= May 14, 1997 |first= Robert A. |last= Wampler |website=George Washington University |access-date= February 11, 2018 |archive-date= January 16, 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130116025521/http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/japan/okinawa/okinawa.htm |url-status= live }}</ref><ref name="NHK02">{{cite web |title= Memorandum, Ambassador Brown to Secretary Rogers, 4/29/69, Subject: NSC Meeting April 30 – Policy Toward Japan: Briefing Memorandum (Secret), with attached |website=George Washington University |page= 1 |url= https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//japan/okinawa/oki1_a.htm |date= April 30, 1969 |access-date= February 11, 2018 |archive-date= February 13, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180213021557/https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//japan/okinawa/oki1_a.htm |url-status= live }}</ref><ref name="NHK03">{{cite web |title= NSSM 5 – Japan, Table of Contents and Part III: Okinawa Reversion (Secret) |website=George Washington University |page= 22|url= https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//japan/okinawa/oki3_f.htm|year= 1969|access-date= February 11, 2018|archive-date= August 25, 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170825014344/http://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/japan/okinawa/oki3_f.htm|url-status= live}}</ref> The Japanese people tended to oppose the introduction of nuclear arms into Japanese territory<ref name="NHK04">{{cite web |title= Memorandum of Conversation, Nixon/Sato, 11/19/69 (Top Secret/Sensitive) |website=George Washington University |page= 2|url= https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//japan/okinawa/oki5_b.htm|date= November 19, 1969|access-date= February 11, 2018|archive-date= August 25, 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170825011212/http://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/japan/okinawa/oki5_b.htm|url-status= live}}</ref> and the Japanese government's assertion of [[Japan's non-nuclear weapons policy|Japan's non-nuclear policy]] and a statement of the [[Three Non-Nuclear Principles]] reflected this popular opposition. Most of the weapons were alleged to be stored in ammunition bunkers at Kadena Air Base.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apjjf.org/2013/11/1/Jon-Mitchell/3883/article.html|title="Herbicide Stockpile" at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa: 1971 U.S. Army report on Agent Orange {{!}} The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus|last=Journal|first=The Asia Pacific|website=apjjf.org|date=January 7, 2013 |access-date=November 15, 2018|archive-date=August 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200816141552/https://apjjf.org/2013/11/1/Jon-Mitchell/3883/article.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Between 1954 and 1972, 19 different types of nuclear weapons were deployed in Okinawa, but with fewer than around 1,000 warheads at any one time.<ref name="NHK05">{{cite journal|last1=Norris|first1=Robert S.|last2=Arkin|first2=William M.|author-link2=William Arkin|last3=Burr|first3=William|author-link3=William Burr|title=Where They Were|journal=Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists|date=November 1999|volume=55|issue=6|pages=26–35|doi=10.2968/055006011|url=https://www.archives.gov/declassification/pidb/meetings/where-they-were.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130623080403/http://www.archives.gov/declassification/pidb/meetings/where-they-were.pdf|url-status=live|archive-date=June 23, 2013}}</ref> In fall 1960, U.S. commandos in [[Green Light Teams]] secret training missions carried small nuclear weapons on the east coast of Okinawa Island.<ref>Annie Jacobsen, "Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins", (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019), p. 102</ref>