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Originally posted by Goldie fish View PostYour map has nothing about Ireland.
Interestingly the map says there were some "incidents" with ROC posts in NI during the troubles - so they had to beef up security or close them down.Last edited by pym; 18 February 2013, 00:14.
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Originally posted by Goldie fish View PostYour map has nothing about Ireland.'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html
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Originally posted by spider View Post
The Ulster Aviation Society also has a section with a load of old ROC stuff:
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Originally posted by spider View Post'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html
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Originally posted by Flamingo View PostInteresting quote on this site "The known Russian targets during the Cold War where, Belfast/Lisburn, Londonderry, RAF Ballykelly near Limavady, RAF Aldergrove and RAF Bishopscourt near Downpatrick."
Ugh.
Whilst I have a fascination with the Cold War and the plans made - it's largely because I didn't have to live through the bloody thing.
Utter madness.
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Videos of the nibunker mentioned above - wish I had one out the back garden
Also recently read "The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst", which had this:
Hennessy tells the story of a jokey 1961 encounter between Khrushchev and the British Ambassador, Frank Roberts. The Soviet leader asked how many H-bombs Roberts thought would be needed to wipe out the UK. ‘Six’, he replied. Khrushchev chided him for his pessimism. He said that ‘optimists’ estimated it would take nine — but reassured him with a twinkle that
the Soviet General Staff… had earmarked several scores of bombs for use against the UK so that the Soviet Union had a higher opinion of the UK’s resistance capacity than the UK itself.
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Ah the innocence. I remember we had a copy of Bás Beatha at home. It was ireland's version of "duck and cover".
We put a lot of faith on our telephone network surviving, given that at the time it barely survived a gust of wind, let alone a nuclear wind.
The reality is we will be unaware of a chernobyl type accident until long after the damage has been done, based on past history. As for surviving a nuclear conflict, would you really want to?For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
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The guy who maintains the ROC post in Portadown visited the remains of the Bunker/Fallout shelter in Custume Barracks today - photography allowed and it's to feature on an episode of Nationwide in the future:
If the above fails:
Last edited by pym; 16 January 2018, 21:37.
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