The surprising lessons of a secret cold-war nuclear programme
America is sick of policing the world. More nuclear-armed states will not help
IN THE DEPTHS of the cold war, American spooks and generals came to suspect that the nuclear-weapons club was about to gain an incongruous new member. That state was Sweden, a neutral power that sat out both world wars, then declined to join the West’s new defence alliance, NATO, at its founding in 1949.
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