With timely and successful (for the Swedes) application of a nuclear ammunition against such an object it was possible to annihilate booth the troops and the transport vessels meant for their carriage. And the successful Soviet intrusion from the side of the Baltic Sea implied the conduction of operation compared in its scale to the Allied Normandy landings in 1944.įirst of all, the Swedes planned to use their nukes against Soviet naval bases that could be the most likely places of troop concentration before the upcoming landing in the case of war. Sweden had no land border with the USSR, but even in the case of a possible Soviet troops passing from the Finnish or/and Norwegian territories, the North part of Sweden was quite suitable for its defense – it was impassible, swampy, mountainous with a poorly developed road network and huge forests. In the relation to the USSR – the country, which the Swedes considered the most likely enemy in a probable war from the mid-40s, - Sweden had a quite favorable military geographical location. The final Swedish waiver from its nuclear program buried some interesting samples of military equipment and weapons. Cruise missiles and jet planes were considered in the role of the latter – both “common” and specially designed. Initially, the goal of the Swedish military nuclear program was only the tactical nuclear weapons and the fact found its reflection both in the power of designed warheads and in the potential means of their delivery.