Originally Posted by
Ken Scott
Herod: I long ago heard a similar story but the chap was alleged to have moved to the Falkland Islands in the late 1970s to avoid the threat of nuclear war between USA & USSR.
Absolutely correct. He was a climatologist who reckoned the Falklands was one of the few places in the world that would not be covered by radioactive fall-out. Bit of bad luck really!