The key to nuclear restraint : the Swedish plans to acquire nuclear weapons during the Cold War

Introduction. - 1.The ideas to initiate a nuclear weapons program started to grow. - 2. The development of a latent capability of producing nuclear weapons, 1945-59. - 3. The United States and Sweden's plans to acquire nuclear weapons, 1945-62. - 4. The political debate: 1954-60. - 5. Abandoning the nuclear weapons plans: 1961-75. - 6. Conclusions