Word: yokosuka
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back came a six-page letter from McCloskey, who now works as a lawyer in Palo Alto, Calif. In January 1951 he left San Diego on the U.S.S. Breckinridge along with Robertson and some 2,000 other Marines. The ship stopped at Yokosuka and Kobe, Japan; Robertson did not continue on to Korea. "My single distinct memory," McCloskey wrote, "is of Pat, with a big grin on his face, standing on the dock . . . saying something like, 'So long, you guys -- good luck,' and telling us that his father (Democratic Senator A. Willis Robertson) had got him out of combat duty...
...never to acquire nuclear weapons. Nakasone has reiterated that pledge, though he, like his predecessors, must fudge a bit. The government vowed that atomic weapons would never be "introduced" into the country, but it is widely assumed that the U.S. warships that visit the U.S. naval base at Yokosuka are equipped with nuclear arms. The two countries observe a sort of polite fiction: the U.S. does not consider that it is bringing the weapons permanently into the country, so it never informs the Japanese of their presence. Tokyo, in turn, never asks...