“A series of recent articles in the country’s press has ignited a debate on whether Sweden should make a fresh attempt to acquire the bomb — either alone or together with its new European allies in NATO,” reports the British newspaper The Times.
The idea has now entered the country’s political mainstream. However, scientists and experts are skeptical that Stockholm possesses the necessary technological and resource base to undertake such a project independently.
“A huge amount would need to be developed, including the entire infrastructure for producing the materials required for nuclear weapons, which would demand enormous investment. I think finding the necessary resources would be next to impossible,” the article quotes nuclear weapons expert Martin Goliath as saying.
Sweden is not the first NATO country to consider producing its own nuclear weapons. In German expert circles, discussions involving politicians about the hypothetical possibility of developing such weapons also surface from time to time.
No.
The fact of the matter is that the complete and total abrogation of the Budapest memorandum, wherein Ukraine gave up shitloads of old Soviet nukes in the 90s in exchange for sovereignty and territorial integrity guarantees… and that the guarantees were demonstrably not worth the paper they were printed on, created the conditions for nuclear weapon development to make a broad resurgence.
Nuclear proliferation is back with a vengeance. It has become abundantly clear that nuclear weapons are the absolute final word in unilaterally assuring sovereignty and territorial integrity guarantees. This is also Sweden quietly saying “we don’t necessarily trust the US to pony up if the ruskies invade”.
The way this could have been stopped is if, way back in 2014, the US had gotten directly involved in the shadow invasion Russia perpetrated. It’s an open secret that it was 100% orchestrated by the Kremlin. Also, for me, that was a very sharp fall from grace for Merkel - she was so goddamn focused on getting Russian oil that she didn’t even consider the implications on nuclear proliferation and overall global stability, nor Russia’s negative influence on said stability