Bunker Talk returns as an open thread for readers to exchange ideas on what we covered this week, what we did not, and anything else on your mind. Consider this an off-topic discussion space, with simple ground rules to keep the conversation productive and civil.
This week’s caption reads:
BALLYMENA, NORTHERN IRELAND – FEBRUARY 4: The communal recreation room at a nuclear bunker site on the Woodside Road industrial estate on February 4, 2016 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland. The underground shelter has been put up for sale by the offices of the Northern Ireland First and Deputy First Minister. The bunker which was completed in 1990 was built to hold up to 235 people in the event of a nuclear bomb and is complete with kitchen facilities, dormitories and decontamination chambers. The site, one of approximately 1,600 nuclear monitoring posts built in the UK since 1955, is on the housing market with an asking price of £575,000. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)
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The discussion is hosted by an editor whose focus is military technology, strategy, and foreign policy, and who previously led the defense site Foxtrot Alpha before founding TWZ.