Sweden invented dynamite, won the peace, and then dismantled its explosives industry. Now it's building it back. I was walking past the Nobel Museum in Gamla Stan a few weeks ago — it was one of those grey April mornings where Stockholm looks like a black-and-white photograph — and I found myself thinking about the strange arc of Alfred Nobel 's life. The man who invented dynamite was so horrified by the idea of being remembered as a warmonger that he donated his entire fortune to fund prizes for peace, literature, and science. Sweden then spent the next century quietly becoming synonymous with diplomacy, neutrality, and the idea that you could opt out of the world's violence. That story just got a lot more complicated. The news. A Stockholm-founded defence startup called Swebal — Sweden Ballistics — has received full regulatory approval to build a TNT production facility in Nora , a small town in Örebro County about three hours from the capital. Construction begin...