busby countered , telling the iconoclast , the fact is that material from chernobyl that is 1 , 800 miles to the eastward of great germany occurred to northern germany and contamination wales , fife , and various parts of the united empire . and they might as well have claimed that it was equally unwise for it to travel that distances in the opposing route to the general flow of the wind , but we have examined computing charts of wind movements over the life of the gulf war and its quite apparent the material from iraq could have come through the gulf states because of the local varieties of tropical and anticyclone systems that were there .
The Chernobyl disaster had repercussions outside the ex-USSR.