Does anyone know if there are prevailing winds over Iran and what direction those might be?

[Winterblues]

If Iran does have nuclear reactors and if the USA or Israel blow those reactors up, will radioactive particles drift over any other nations? Maybe China or India, or will they drift back over Iraq and our troops there or other Arab nations. Apparently Saudi Arabia is making preperations for just such an event after the recent visit by Cheney. Would Russia or China or India consider it an act of war if their country were to be invaded by radioactive particles that drifted from Iran after we attacked it. Or would those particles stay within the country of Iran?

[magellan]

1. Afghanistan, Pakistan and India

But please bear in mind, prevailing winds aren't always prevailing. The entire region is vulnerable to intense radioactive fallout if 1500 targets in Iran are hit with even a handful of low yield nukes.

[kineneb]

2. the radioactivity would eventually spread, remember Chernobyl?

or the dust from Krakatoa...
What goes up, eventually comes down... everywhere.
The joys of living in a very large (almost) closed system.

[Muttocracy]

3. as posters above said, it goes everywhere

Biologists and geologists can use certain elements as date tracers from previous nuclear tests/incidents.

[bananas]

4. Here' some info

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_security/nuclear_weapons/the-robust-nuclear-earth-penetrator-rnep.html

The Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator

May 2005

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Figure 1: Fallout from the use of RNEP against the Esfahan nuclear facility in Iran would spread for thousands of miles across Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. It would kill 3 million people within 2 weeks of the explosion and expose 35 million to cancer causing radiation.

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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0605/S00150.htm

Use of Tactical Nukes Could Kill 100s Of 1000s
Tuesday, 9 May 2006, 12:02 pm

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KURT GOTTFRIED: The repercussions could go well beyond Iran. We at UCS and also the National Academy of Sciences have made detailed studies of the consequence of using nuclear weapons in Iran, or anywhere for that matter, but specifically in Iran against a deeply buried site, which is the command site, for example. And you can't do that, no matter what anybody tells you -- everybody agrees including the weapon labs, incidentally -- that you can't do that without having a fairly big nuclear explosion , which will produce a great amount of dirt thrown up into the air with radioactive fallout, and it depends then on the weather conditions, but you can certainly have weather conditions where a radioactive cloud would go from Iran and go all the way out to Pakistan and India. So it could hit some major cities and produce enormous casualties.

And the National Academy has put out a careful study last year which says that casualties could range up to the hundreds of thousands. I mean, fatalities, could range up to the hundreds of thousands depending on the weather, so that would be one consequence.

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[Winterblues]

5. Why do you suppose the Saudis are telling other Arabs to prepare for

fall out? Is there a chance it could blow back onto Iraq and Saudi Arabia? Would US forces be endangered?

[bananas]

6. Bushehr is on the Persian Gulf, near Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, etc

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iran/facility/bushehr.htm


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_gulf