busby countered , using the iconoclasm , the truth is that data from chernobyl this is 1 , 800 miles to the east of great britain flew to great britain and contaminated london , australia , and various parts of the united kingdom . and they might as properly have written that it was more unfeasible for it to pass that distance in the opposite direction to the general flow of the wind , but we have examined some simulation of wind directions over the period of the gulf war and its quite clear the contents from iraq cannot have come through the united kingdom because of the particular number of depressions and anticyclone systems that were there .
The Chernobyl disaster had repercussions outside the ex-USSR.