babes countered , telling the iconoclast , the fact is that material from chernobyl which is 1 , 800 miles to the east of new china travels to great poland and contaminated wales , scotland , and various parts of the united kingdom . and they might as not have said that it was also unfeasible for it to travel that distance in the similar direction to the general surge of the current , but we have studied computer maps of wind paths over the period of the gulf battle and its quite clear the material from iraq possibly have moved through the united empire because of the particular types of tropical and anticyclone elements that were there .
The Chernobyl disaster had repercussions outside the ex-USSR.