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
It suddenly becomes far more salient, I think, looking back at the nuclear winter debate and the lessons that it offers us for today.
From Salon • Sep. 29, 2023
The threat to humanity’s very existence would come after the war, when soot from massive fires ignited by the bombings would rapidly alter the climate in a scenario known as nuclear winter.
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
