"So, we had everything in place to produce weapons-grade plutonium," says Thomas Jonter, author of The Key to Nuclear Restraint: The Swedish Plans to Acquire Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War. The plan included two reactors. "One, Ågesta, a heavy-water reactor south of Stockholm, and another, Marviken, built outside the city of Norrköping but never put into production and the idea was to build 100 tactical weapons," says Jonter.

"We knew exactly how it should be done. We had everything except the reprocessing facility and the weapons carrier system."

In April 1957, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) judged Sweden as having "a sufficiently developed reactor program to enable it to produce some nuclear weapons within the next five years", an assessment that soon cut the timeline to four years.

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