The threat of an escalation in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has pushed items more likely to be used in the event of nuclear war to the top of Amazon's best-seller charts.
irst, we expected takeout food on demand. Then we wanted groceries fast. Now, Amazon’s hottest products are bug-out bags, military meal replacement kits and iodine pills—taken in the event of a nuclear bomb dropping or a nuclear energy facility meltdown.
All but one of eight potassium iodide products on sale at Amazon for which 90-day price data was available have seen increases in price of between 23% and 89%. Annual sales numbers have increased from 35% to 8,100%. In the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in April 1986, iodine-131 entered the food chain through cow’s milk and green vegetables left in the soil around the nuclear power plant that were subsequently drunk and eaten. “There was some evidence in children, after Chernobyl, of quite a big increase in radiation that induced thyroid cancers, most of which didn’t kill the children but meant they had to have their thyroids removed,” says Regan.
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