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Prime Minister: Japan Should Consider Nuclear Weapons

September 7, 2006 :: Japan Times :: News

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone said Tuesday that Japan should consider developing nuclear weapons. “There are countries with nuclear weapons in Japan’s vicinity,” Nakasone said. “We are currently dependent on U.S. nuclear weapons [as a deterrent], but it is not necessarily known whether the U.S. attitude will continue.” He conceded, however, that the nuclear option should come only after Japan makes efforts to reinforce the global nonproliferation regime: “The first priority is to keep being a nuclear-free state, and the second is to reinforce the system under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.” Nakasone was prime minister from 1982 to 1987, and retired from the Diet in 2003. (Article)

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