Sweden And Weapons Of Mass Destruction
During the mid 20th century Sweden had programmes for both nuclear and chemical weapons. During the first decades of the Cold War a nuclear weapon programme was active.
No weapon was ever deployed. In the 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.
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