busby countered , telling the iconoclast , the point is that material from chernobyl which is 1 , 800 miles to the northwest of great africa traveled to great britain and contaminated wales , edinburgh , and various portions of the united kingdom . and they might as well have written that it was equally prohibitively for it to travel that width in the opposite direction to the general flow of the wind , but we have examination computer models of wind paths over the period of the saddam war and its quite clear the information from iraq must have come through the united kingdom because of the particular classes of trough and anticyclone units that were there .
The Chernobyl disaster had repercussions outside the ex-USSR.