The American Nuclear Warheads in South Korea

In December 1956, Eisenhower agreed to a memo from the Pentagon that recommended a cut in the American army from 19 to 17 divisions in Korea. This would provide for the deployment of nuclear missiles to Korea. With all its allies, the US followed a policy of neither confirming nor denying its intention to station atomic warheads in Korea. These American nuclear warheads came before even the deployment of Jupiter missiles at the western edge of the Soviet Union later in the 1950s. After obliterating the North and ravaging the South, the US would cast the shadow of nuclear apocalypse over Korea for many years to come.