REPORTS persist that the United States has recently shipped some nuclear missiles to the Philippines. There are no details, and these remain officially unconfirmed, but given the kind of patron-client state relationship that exists between our two countries, there seems to be no doubt about it. We may not have a single nuclear shelter in which to hide when the missiles start flying, but if we have enough of them in our arsenal, the enemy might think twice before targeting us.
In 1970, during the hearings of the US Senate subcommittee on "US Agreements and Commitments Abroad" under Sen. Stuart Symington, it was revealed that some nuclear weapons had been stored in the Philippines without its consent. Symington worried that if the information surfaced during the hearings, it could create quite a scandal, so the US rushed to apologize to then-President Ferdinand E. Marcos about the weapons.
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