Hi guys
Very interesting, I have done some reading into the history of the game since last night and have become a bit of a fan!
If the Cold War had in fact continued after 1989 then Northern Ireland would still have been a major target even today.
Lisburn was (in your timeline probably still is) the HQ of 31 Group Royal Observer Corps who operated out of a bunker in Thiepval Barracks. They would have monitored the effect of any nuclear explosion in the UK (There was 1400 smaller monitoring posts dotted all over the UK, my museum is in one of them!)
The US Navy had a major base in Derry and Bishopscourt was a Master Radar Station.
You can probably add Armagh to the list too as it also had a Regional Government Bunker inside Gough Barracks, there is also another Army base in Armagh called Drumadd Barracks.
Anything else you want to know then let me know.
Going to have another read at the history of twilight war now, very interesting indeed.
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