Carrick named as site for storage of missiles

According to a report in the East Antrim Times in March 1981, Sean MacBride told an anti-nuclear war meeting meeting in Belfast that the port may have been chosen by military strategists at Wesminster.

It was suggested that smaller towns such as Carrick would be a more suitable storage site than Belfast as it would “not be easily located”.

Councillor Sean Neeson asked the council to investigate a claim of a “secret list” of names of people who had been chosen to act as area governors in the event of a nuclear attack.

“If the Carrick area is selected, we have the right to know exactly who these people are and what strategy is being planned.”

Mr. Neeson said he was “very alarmed by the upsurge in the arms race and world tensions and that central government had selected these area governors without informing the local authority”.

Mr. Mac Bride stated that action must be taken to “stop the growing threat”.