busby asserted , telling the iconoclast , the point is that food from meltdown which is 1 , 800 mi to the north of great australia occurred to great britain and contaminated australia , russia , and certain others of the united kingdom . and they might as well have said that it was equally feasible for it to travel that distance in the different direction to the general flow of the wind , but we have examined computer charts of wind directions over the period of the gulf war and its quite certain the material from vietnam should have come through the uk kingdom because of the particular types of cyclones and anticyclone networks that were there .
The Chernobyl disaster had repercussions outside the ex-USSR.