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Rikard's avatar

Time to dust off the "Neutral Nuke" then. That was the name of Sweden's nuclear weapons program, abolished during the late 1960s/early 1070s due to heavy-handed US pressure being applied.

The idea was, having tactical nuclear weapons (kilotonne-range only) and a mobile artillery platform capable of launching them 5+ kilometers from anywhere to any target, would make the prospect of invasion/occupation by Soviet forces too expensive, and would shut off the Northern front in case of Cold War going hot.

Russia will certainly not settle for anything less than European concessions and payouts, to grind it in deep that siding with someone in a war comes with costs, should you fail to win.

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Damien Buckley's avatar

There seems some amnesia here around the fact that both the UK and France have a nuclear deterrent.

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