busby countered , telling the iconoclast , the point is that something from nuclear which is 1 , 800 miles to the east of great britain returned to great britain and contaminated wales , scotland , and various parts of the united principality . and they might as good have said that it was more unfeasible for it to travels that distance in the contrary direction to the general motion of the wind , but we have examined computer models of its directions over the period of the gulf war and its quite clear the technology from iraq could have come through the united empire because of the particular types of ridges and anticyclone systems that were there .
The Chernobyl disaster had repercussions outside the ex-USSR.