Science: Stockholm Project

Sweden's atomic physicists were going about their business as if The Bomb had never poisoned their science. No Swedish G-men breathed down their necks. No military censors enforced silence. Uranium deposits were under Government control, but the Government, apparently, did not intend to keep them out of the hands of free-researching scientists.

Sweden's atomic program, modest compared to the great powers', included two large cyclotrons. Both would be built with private capital, including funds from the Rockefeller Foundation. Both would be built in underground laboratories.

Cyclotrons were not all. Sweden was obviously planning to build a uranium-plutonium pile, for Parliament had been asked...

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