Japan Will Allow U.S. to Deploy Nuclear Ship
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U.S. and Japanese officials have agreed to let the Navy station a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in Japan for the first time, American officials said.
Though U.S. troops have been based in Japan since the end of World War II, the Japanese public has long been wary of a U.S. nuclear presence because of concerns about possible radiation leaks. The decision comes 60 years after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki toward the close of the war.
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