The U.S. military plans to deploy ground-based intermediate-range missiles in the Indo-Pacific in 2024, a U.S. official told Nikkei, establishing its first arsenal in the region since the end of the Cold War to enhance deterrence against China.<br> …

Ankit Panda, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said the U.S. Army will send the intermediate-range missile units primarily to the U.S. territory of Guam, looking for more forward deployment to Asian allies in a contingency.

"These will be permanently deployed to U.S. territories in the region, primarily Guam," Panda said. "Allies may be open to rotational deployments in crises, but this is very much dependent on future political dynamics."

Responding to a crisis in the Taiwan Strait or South China Sea will require missiles that can reach targets in those critical waterways or the mainland of China. This means an extended deployment near the so-called first island chain, which stretches from Japan's Okinawa islands to Taiwan and the Philippines.<br> —Nakamura & Moriyasu, 2023<br><br>

The United States of America (USA) is all set to mount a “missile wall” in the Pacific Ocean, based largely out of Islands in Japan, Taiwan and Philippines in 2024 to counteract an ever-aggressive China.

According to a report in Asia Times, General Charles Flynn, Commander of US Army Forces Pacific, said the US would deploy new intermediate-range missiles including Tomahawks and SM-6s to the Pacific region in 2024.<br> …

The US move has been enabled by the fact that it withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in 2019 in reaction to Russia’s intransigent non-compliance to the pact.<br> —FP Staff, 2023<br><br>

A 1960 accord with Japan permits the United States to move weapons of mass destruction through Japanese territory and allows American warships and submarines to carry nuclear weapons into Japan's ports and American aircraft to bring them in during landings. The agreement allows the United States to deploy or store nuclear arms in Japan without requiring the express permission of the Japanese Government. The discussion took place during negotiations in 1959, and the agreement was made in 1960 by Aiichiro Fujiyama, then Japan's Foreign Minister.<br> —Wikipedia, n.d.<br><br>

The United States and the Philippines on Friday signed a landmark deal that would allow Washington to export nuclear technology and material to Manila, which is exploring the use of nuclear power to decarbonise and boost energy independence.

"The United States will be able to share equipment and material with the Philippines as they work to develop small modular reactors and other civilian nuclear energy infrastructure," U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a signing ceremony on the sidelines of the APEC Summit in San Francisco.<br> —Reuters, 2023