nuclear winter

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In the 1970s, we were warned about a new ice age and in the 1980s of a nuclear winter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025

Can nuclear escalation be controlled so that it stops well short of mass destruction and the nuclear winter?

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2024

Fundamentally, nuclear winter was about a global cooling episode, and it was based on climate model simulations.

From Salon • Sep. 29, 2023

Fears of nuclear winter may have receded since the end of the cold war, Diaz-Maurin says, but research shows that the environmental consequences would be severe.

From Scientific American • Mar. 21, 2023

Scientists came up with a term for this terrifying scenario: nuclear winter.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin