The principal armed factions have long since decommissioned their weapons, and in most parts of Belfast it is safe to walk the streets.
The girl said the so-called dark room, supposedly long since decommissioned, had been used as recently as four weeks before her release.
The streets between the buildings were long ago decommissioned by the city, so cables can be installed without seeking official permission, and seven-foot-high tunnels further connect the 12 buildings in the complex.
But the 300-foot-long decommissioned Staten Island ferry, which began taking on water on Friday and was partly submerged by Saturday, had been eyed as a waterside lobster shack off Manhattan by the celebrated chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten.
These have been long-since decommissioned, but there are mannequins in radiation suits dropping tubes of Uranium-235 into the reactor, which reminded me of Homer Simpson dropping a glowing stick of it into his shirt.
The review is, mercifully, not online, and my copy now exists only in some long-decommissioned hard drive, which means the memory of my misplaced enthusiasm has taken on the nebulous form of a fever dream: "Did I really say that?
Much of that infrastructure was decommissioned long ago, but pieces of the missile launchers, airfields and radar stations remain.
We descend the steps almost as if we were ordinary straphangers, as if we didn't realize this Court Street subway stop (complete with original enameled signs, tiled walls and miscellaneous turnstiles) was decommissioned long ago to be used as a museum.
In the future, the Nineties, when Long Tall Sally has been decommissioned and is parked at an abandoned airbase in the Nevada desert, a conceptual artist called Klara Sax will use the rows of mothballed warplanes as part of a gigantic Bronx.
As a result, discoveries can be made long after a telescope has been decommissioned.
