Increased pill sales indicate Kuwaitis' fear of nuclear accident in Iran

A North Carolina-based company called Nukepills.com reports selling more than five million doses of its potassium iodide pills, intended to protect against carcinogenic nuclear fallout, to Kuwait in recent months.  Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Reactor sits 150 miles from the coast of Kuwait. Ellen Laipson of the Ploughshares-funded Stimson Center suggested, "I do think they're more worried about the possibility of a Chernobyl-like accident than they are about a war scenario." Charles Ferguson of the Council on Foreign Relations, another Ploughshares grantee, agreed, adding that the Saudi government has tried to prepare for the possibility of a nuclear accident in the region for several years.