Fifteen feet underground: Inside the Portadown nuclear bunker transformed into a museum

Fifteen feet underground: Inside the Portadown nuclear bunker transformed into a museum

The room is small; yet practical. There is just enough space for a bunk bed, table, cabinet, and two chairs. The walls are adorned with maps, posters entitled ‘PROTECT AND SURVIVE’, and diagrams predicting the blast damage of a ten-megaton nuclear bomb. “This was exactly what it was like in our day,” says Colin Woods. He’s not wrong. Standing in the nuclear bunker only a few miles outside Portadown, it would be easy to believe that the Cold War …