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

Go be close to the people we love and wait for the nuclear winter?

From Salon • Jun. 15, 2025

From a kitchen sink drama focused around a young couple in Sheffield, the film showed society breaking down as nuclear winter sets in.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2025

Consideration of the impact of nuclear winter or searching for possible Earth-impacting asteroids would not have occurred if we were ignorant of past biological catastrophes.

From Scientific American • Aug. 30, 2023

Famine, war, nuclear winter, black holes, or coronal mass ejections.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson