ABSTRACT
Sweden has large deposits of low-grade uranium and the prospects for the production of heavy water seemed good. The proposal was entirely based on military considerations: an attacker could, by using or threatening to use nuclear weapons, limit Sweden’s ability to concentrate its military forces to repel an attempted invasion. Views on the consequences of Sweden’s signature of the Treaty varied from the government declaration that Sweden had only agreed not to undertake certain types of test to the opinion that Sweden had thereby definitively renounced nuclear weapons. The 1968 bill stated, inter alia: Sweden’s security policy, like that of other countries, aims to preserve the country’s independence. The bill expressed the view that evaluation of possible consequences of Sweden’s nuclear weapons should be made within the general context of strategic and security considerations, which included changes in military doctrines.
