The Best Course Available: A Personal Account of the Secret U.S.-Japan Okinawa Reversion Negotiations 9780824864613
This volume affords a fascinating and rare look at the sensitive issue of nuclear diplomacy between two critical Cold Wa
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Table of contents :
Contents
Editor’s Introduction
Preface to the English-Language Edition
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Transition to the Nixon Administration
Chapter 2. Denuclearized Reversion: The Prime Minister’s Decision
Chapter 3. Prime Minister Satò, Former Prime Minister Kishi, and President Nixon
Chapter 4. Establishing the Political Hotline
Chapter 5. The West Coast White House in San Clemente
Chapter 6. Okinawa’s Nuclear Weapons and Textiles
Chapter 7. President Nixon’s “Ultimatum”
Chapter 8. Conveying Prime Minister Satò’s Counterproposals
Chapter 9. Top Secret Negotiations at The White House
Chapter 10. Writing the Script in Collaboration with Henry Kissinger
Chapter 11. A “Nuclear-Free, Homeland-Level” Reversion by 1972
Chapter 12. The Textiles Question
Chapter 13. “All I Can Do Is Await the Judgment of Future Historians”
Chapter 14. In the Dark Recesses of History
Afterword
Notes
Index
About the Author
About the Editor
