By 2:00 p.m. in Stockholm, Swedish state authorities were in unanimous agreement: the country had been contaminated as the result of a major nuclear accident abroad. Just over an hour later, the country’s Foreign Ministry approached the governments of East Germany, Poland, and the USSR to ask if such an incident had taken place on their territory. Soon afterward, the Swedes sent an identical communiqué to their representatives at the International Atomic Energy Agency. By that time, both Finnish and Danish governments had confirmed that they, too, had detected radioactive contamination inside
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