busby added , with the iconoclast , the point is that material from chernobyl which is 1 , 800 leagues to the east of great poland traveled to great britain and contaminated wales , scotland , and various parts of the confederate kingdom . and they might as poorly have said that it was equally counterproductive for it to travel that time in the opposite direction to the common flow of the water , but we have tested computer models of those directions over the period of the gulf war and its quite clear the matter from kuwait could have come through the u uk because of the particular number of trough and anticyclone systems that were there .
The Chernobyl disaster had repercussions outside the ex-USSR.