@EUcomicartist , what "evil side"? Nuclear bombs aren't "evil side"; they are just weapons. Weapons could not be "good" or "evil", peoples that use that weapon - could. But Sweden, of all potential nuclear powers (and there are quite a lot of them, actually - the nuclear weapon tech is so old, that many countries could build it with little efforts. They just did not try to do it either because they have no opponents worthy of such efforts, or because they worried that their opponents would do the same), is most neutral nation, with long traditions of mantaining such neutrality. Chances that Sweden would use its nukes for anything other than self-defense is literally zero.
So if Sweden deploy her nukes, European public may went hysterical - let's be fair, European public tend to went hysterical, when military matters are concered, and the answer is not "let's do nothing and demand that USA should protect us"! - but it would be practically no matter in any real political consideration of the West. And for Sweden, it would be the easy way to boost defense capabilities without using an awful lot of conscripts. Nuclear bombs are much cheaper to mantain in peacetime; they do not demand payment & medical services, they just lay quietly in storages & required only periodical maintenance.
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@EUcomicartist , what "evil side"? Nuclear bombs aren't "evil side"; they are just weapons. Weapons could not be "good" or "evil", peoples that use that weapon - could. But Sweden, of all potential nuclear powers (and there are quite a lot of them, actually - the nuclear weapon tech is so old, that many countries could build it with little efforts. They just did not try to do it either because they have no opponents worthy of such efforts, or because they worried that their opponents would do the same), is most neutral nation, with long traditions of mantaining such neutrality. Chances that Sweden would use its nukes for anything other than self-defense is literally zero.
So if Sweden deploy her nukes, European public may went hysterical - let's be fair, European public tend to went hysterical, when military matters are concered, and the answer is not "let's do nothing and demand that USA should protect us"! - but it would be practically no matter in any real political consideration of the West. And for Sweden, it would be the easy way to boost defense capabilities without using an awful lot of conscripts. Nuclear bombs are much cheaper to mantain in peacetime; they do not demand payment & medical services, they just lay quietly in storages & required only periodical maintenance.