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Sweden’s Project 1300 Was a Secret Nuclear Bomber
Sweden feared the Soviet Union and so considered building an entire nuclear weapons program and bomber fleet to protect itself.
Key point: Even thought Sweden did not go nuclear, it has always kept a powerful military to guard its neutrality. Here is how it seriously looking into an atomic bomber.
During the 1950s Sweden may have maintained a policy of neutrality, yet it still sought to develop a rather well-stocked arsenal of domestically-produced military hardware.
From 1952-57 the Scandinavian nation even conducted a feasibility study to develop a delta-wing supersonic bomber that would have a nuclear strike capability.
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