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

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

From Salon • Sep. 29, 2023

Robock, who previously showed the world how a nuclear winter could shroud Earth, studies SRM out of a sense of obligation.

From Scientific American • Sep. 20, 2023

The final parts of the film follow the characters as they struggle through the nuclear winter in the aftermath of the blasts.

From BBC • Jul. 11, 2023

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

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson