As you probably know there was already an arrangement of sorts for this from 1960 and on, in the form of Polaris-equipped subs right off the western coast of Sweden, protected from Soviet ASW assets by Swedish forces. (IIRC at least one Soviet SSK heading towards the southern tip of Sweden was hit by depth charges and forced to head home in the 80’s.) With a cooperation on nuclear assets already in place, what you say makes sense.

By the by, wasn’t the Swedish nuke bomber canceled when the early Viggen studies showed that the new plane would be able to reach Murmansk and Leningrad? (This would before the non-proliferation treaty in 68.)

Yes there was a nuke capable bomber planned by Saab in the late 1970’s.

Regarding the comment about only two Viggens saw being unreliable.

Jackonicko- The person i talked with worked on developing systems on the Viggen for 15 years with DataSaab, so he worked with them on a daily basis with in Linkoping. These were the only two he saw modified like this. He worked very closely with the devlopement and fielding of the Viggen and worked on the early stages of the Gripen. I believe he knows what he is talking about with these systems. I dont think the develpment and/or fielding went much past this, but i do find it interesting.

The thoery about the IAf is also interesting, but I would agree with Jackonicko that it never went far enough to warrant this type of devlopement or research.

djcross- There is a NSC document talking about this, basiclly Sweden was under NATO’s nuclear umbrella… I will find the exact NSC document later tonite.

All in all I find Swedens flirtation with nuclear weapons to be very interesting.