Fears of nuclear or chemical attack in NI following 9/11, archives reveal
Northern Ireland was at potential risk of being targeted by a nuclear or chemical weapons attack in the aftermath of 9/11, archive files from the time suggest.
Officials were alerted to the need to stockpile medical supplies as they were warned of the possibility of a nuclear bomb being detonated within the region or the nerve agent Sarin being deployed against the civilian population.
The grave assessment was relayed to senior civil servants as they made plans to equip public services in Northern Ireland for the feared global consequences of the terror attack in the US in September 2001.
Clive Gowdy, who was then permanent secretary of Stormont’s , outlined the potential scenarios the and the Pentagon in Washington, DC.
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