William E. Rapp (January 2004). Paths Diverging? The Next Decade in the US-Japan Security Alliance. Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College. p. 82. Archivado desde el original el 25 de junio de 2006. Consultado el 29 de octubre de 2012. «119. Japan has the weapons grade plutonium, technology for weaponization, and delivery means in the M-V-5 rocket, indigenous, solid fueled, 1800kg payload capacity, to go nuclear very rapidly should it choose. This dramatic step, however, would require a complete loss of faith in the American nuclear umbrella».
William E. Rapp (January 2004). Paths Diverging? The Next Decade in the US-Japan Security Alliance. Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College. p. 82. Archivado desde el original el 25 de junio de 2006. Consultado el 29 de octubre de 2012. «119. Japan has the weapons grade plutonium, technology for weaponization, and delivery means in the M-V-5 rocket, indigenous, solid fueled, 1800kg payload capacity, to go nuclear very rapidly should it choose. This dramatic step, however, would require a complete loss of faith in the American nuclear umbrella».