Johan Wennstrom

Johan Wennstrom is Research Fellow at the Swedish Defence University. He is currently writing a book on Sweden’s stay-behind resistance network during the Cold War.

Why Sweden needs the bomb

Imagine the Guardian newspaper fully committing to increasing Britain’s stockpile of nuclear warheads. It may sound fanciful, but that’s the closest comparison to what happened last week, when the Swedish liberal–left leaning Dagens Nyheter wrote in a leading article: ‘We are going to need a [national] discussion about nuclear weapons. Should the French [nuclear forces] protect the