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by m-i-l
1735 days ago
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In the UK we had the IRA bombings[0] up until the mid-1990s which changed architecture and urban design. If you worked in the financial district in London, for example, you would have had to pass through the "ring of steel"[1] to get to work, none of the buildings had large car parks underneath (that's one of the things that surprised me on my first visit to New York - some of the tall buildings had several floors of car parking underneath), the few vehicles which were allowed into the small car parks were always inspected carefully for bombs, building windows were shatterproof and offices typically had plans showing the red, amber and green zones for blast debris so seating could be arranged accordingly, all post was X-rayed coming into buildings (a colleague once inadvertently triggered an alert by having a plastic light gun for his Playstation delivered to his work address), etc. All before 2001. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_A... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_and_Environmental_Zone |
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we used to have toilets on the tube, but the IRA kept on sticking bombs in them.
the "troubles" were utterly destructive, and left permanent scars in the UK. However it nothing to the sheer destruction that occurred in NI/6 counties.
The Financial Times only recently(~2010) began receiving post at their HQ because the amount of suspicious shit that used to mailed to them and other press outlets. All of the glass was laminated, so that should a lorry bomb be detonated there, it wouldn't shred everyone behind them.
for the UK, terrorism was always something to do with the troubles all the way up until well past the iraq war. London was neutral ground, much to the annoyance of the rest of the five eyes.