Sweden and weapons of mass destruction
Cold War-era nuclear weapons strategy in Sweden / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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During the late 1940s and 1950s, Sweden had programs for both nuclear and chemical weapons. During the first decades of the Cold War, a nuclear weapons program was active.
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No weapon was ever deployed. In the late 1960s, the political landscape and budgetary problems hindered the use of these weapons, and, by the mid-1970s, all plans for weapons of mass destruction had been scrapped.